Superstar Quotes - Page 7

• Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?

  Darryl Strawberry

  Beautiful, Baseball, Fall

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• The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Want, Firsts

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• I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

  Earle Combs

  Player, Average, Fame

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• I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

  Darius Rucker

  Wonderful, Music Business, Kenny

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Glue guys aren't superstars. They're not the No. 1 option. They just do things only coaches really appreciate. The stars get the headlines, but glue guys help you get in the winner's circle. I don't think you can win without having that kind of player.

  Dick Vitale

  Stars, Winning, Player

  Interview with Bob Hertzel, www.timeswv.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

  Tex Schramm

  Sports, Thinking, Guy

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• There's stars, superstars, and then there's Bobby Orr.

  Serge Savard

  Stars

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• Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Math, Opportunity

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• Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

  Leif Garrett

  Teenager, Idols, Frank

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• YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.

  Adam Rex

  Laughing, Car, Rooms

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.178, A&C Black

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• If you are what you say you are
  A superstar
  Then have no fear
  The camera's is here
  and the microphones and they wanna know
  Oh oh oh oh yeah
  If you are what you say you are
  Then have no fear

  Lupe Fiasco

  Inspirational, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Just because you're part of 'Twilight' does not mean you're a superstar. It means that you're given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it's all about having your priorities straight and working hard.

  Nikki Reed

  Work, Twilight, Mean

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• We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.

  June Jordan

  Black, Needs, Heritage

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

  James Randi

  Magic, Shadow, Going For It

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• Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they've been passionate, thinking about and tinkering in this space forever. Those are the people you want to surround yourself with.

  Dennis Crowley

  Strong, Team, Thinking

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• Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

  Ron Killings

  Gentleman, Maidens, Vicinity

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• My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

  Tinie Tempah

  America, Goal, Cheesy

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• It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Children, Differences, Champion

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• Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

  Ja Rule

  Inmates, Way, Prison

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Country, Japan, Europe

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• There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it.

  Jenna Lyons

  Life Changing, Ideas, Long

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• I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.

  Daniel Henninger

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

  Rob Sheffield

  World, Ridiculous, Singles

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• That's what got me into exercise and training my body and my voice. I looked at Madonna as this G.I. Jane superstar. I used to go jogging around my neighborhood at midnight sometimes and I'd be thinking, it'll all be worth it one day.

  Darren Hayes

  Exercise, Thinking, Voice

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• The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

  Kid Rock

  Song, Creating, Directors

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