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- Nov 07, 2020
Roots Quotes
Where people come from, and what pulls them back.
These quotes describe roots as both a personal foundation - stand-up comedy as one performer's origin story - and a cultural tie worth revisiting, like returning to a hometown left behind to reconnect with its people. See Family quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies and stuff, I'm just finding the next NBA player.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a Telugu girl, my heart always roots for Tollywood.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the U.S., music became a way for me to find my roots and anchor points.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The downside of dabbling in different industries is that you don't have your roots anywhere and you don't know where your real demand is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
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- Nov 07, 2020