Kirk Acevedo quote: "I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat."

I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice p...
KIRK ACEVEDO

Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thoug...
KIRK ACEVEDO

A lot of tourists stay after the festival. They could go visit local galleries on Monday.
CONNIE ACEVEDO

We're trying to get some of the earlier stars back. They're pros, class acts. And they understand th...
CONNIE ACEVEDO

There are quite a number of local artists and a great deal of local talent. It's good for us and our...
CONNIE ACEVEDO

I believe - and so do most Puerto Ricans - that the ideas that will prevail in the new century will ...
ANIBAL ACEVEDO VILA

Thank God for paper ballots.
ANIBAL ACEVEDO VILA

Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the...
ANIBAL ACEVEDO VILA

When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on...
KIRK CAMERON

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it...
KIRK CAMERON

What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burni...
KIRK CAMERON

My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to...
KIRK DOUGLAS

For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is ...
KIRK HAMMETT

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses...
E.N. KIRK

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beel...
KIRK HAMMETT

It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this'...
JUSTIN KIRK

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why....
KIRK HAMMETT

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individua...
GRAYSON KIRK

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.
KIRK KIRKPATRICK

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a b...
LISA KIRK

I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest busi...
PETER KIRK

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again ma...
MARK KIRK

For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on w...
KIRK HAMMETT

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp...
KIRK HAMMETT

I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who l...
KIRK CAMERON

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi...
KIRK HAMMETT

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, o...
KIRK CAMERON

I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, th...
MARK KIRK

That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to ...
JUSTIN KIRK

I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American commun...
MARK KIRK

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivitie...
KIRK CAMERON

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not ...
KIRK CAMERON

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outs...
KIRK HAMMETT

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my le...
KIRK HAMMETT

The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing bu...
KIRK HAMMETT

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Cir...
JUSTIN KIRK

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was o...
KIRK HAMMETT

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
KIRK DOUGLAS

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. T...
KIRK CAMERON

The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in...
KIRK CAMERON

The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
MARK KIRK

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
KIRK DOUGLAS

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
KIRK DOUGLAS

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to s...
DAVID KIRK

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.
KIRK FRANKLIN

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
KIRK CAMERON

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer ...
JUSTIN KIRK

We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they'...
KIRK CAMERON

Butterflies are like angels kisses sent from heaven.
MALIA KIRK

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobo...
KIRK DOUGLAS

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we a...
MARK KIRK

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic ...
MARK KIRK

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, g...
KIRK HAMMETT

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion beca...
KIRK HAMMETT

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth ...
DAVID KIRK

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS

It was looking pretty desperate out here.
KIRK ANDERSON

If we don't, this is it.
KIRK ANDERSON

If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good.
KIRK ANDERSON

Her pattern was when a child started crying, she couldn't stand it.
KIRK ANDERSON

An RRSP loan is a really good idea. It allows for flexibility, forced savings and tax-deferred growt...
KIRK ANDERSON

Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim...
DAVID KIRK

Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 It is no great matter to...
DAVID KIRK

Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 The Way is not a religion: Christianity i...
DAVID KIRK

Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 The entrance...
DAVID KIRK

We are living "between the times" -- the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit...
DAVID KIRK

Feast of James the Apostle When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contrad...
DAVID KIRK

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general...
DAVID KIRK

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppab...
KIRK CAMERON

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the insid...
KIRK HAMMETT

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated ...
KIRK GIBSON

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
KIRK KIRKPATRICK

Offensively, we haven't look that sharp since we got started in August. I'm not sure I can explain t...
KIRK FERENTZ

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division b...
DAVID KIRK

We faced a lot of great goaltending in Nashville, so we're familiar with it,
KIRK MALTBY

We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave ot...
MARK KIRK

I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and m...
KIRK CAMERON

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come...
ANDREW KIRK

I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue li...
MARK KIRK

A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; ...
KIRK HAMMETT

We're in possession of irrefutable documentary evidence that shows Reade was not there when she says...
KIRK OSBORN

I applaud Apple's relatively quick reaction to this issue by providing a clear and concise explanati...
KIRK MCELHEARN

Love has more depth as you get older.
KIRK DOUGLAS

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does
KIRK DOUGLAS

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd...
KIRK DOUGLAS

You know, I've often thought if I were much older, I might not have done that, ... As you get older,...
KIRK DOUGLAS

A Father. A Son. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
KIRK DOUGLAS

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record o...
KIRK DOUGLAS

Intel is committed to expanding the blade ecosystem. New market segments and broader solutions are a...
KIRK SKAUGEN

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.
KIRK KERKORIAN

I'm not a flamboyant person.
KIRK FERENTZ

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.
KIRK CAMERON

You've heard my pep talks before. I think they listened. They put it together today.
CLIFFORD KIRK

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It'...
KIRK CAMERON

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech i...
KIRK DOUGLAS

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my fa...
KIRK FERENTZ

We faced some adversity, and to respond in a positive way, that's good for everybody. Hopefully we l...
KIRK FERENTZ

Like any great player, you can't simulate them in practice,
KIRK FERENTZ

Everybody got distracted by last week's game. Last week's game doesn't mean crap. It's what you do t...
KIRK FERENTZ

We've already failed one challenge. Not so much on the scoreboard, but the way we performed that day...
KIRK FERENTZ

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think y...
KIRK CAMERON

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when...
KIRK KERKORIAN

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it...
KIRK HAMMETT

You hate to say that they wanted it more than we did, but they're going to The Pit and we're not.
ALAN KIRK

I think the kids are ready for this. I think they're ready to take on that next challenge. We've bee...
ALAN KIRK

We just worked the ball inside and made some good shots. With the majority of playing time on the be...
ALAN KIRK

This was a strong team effort. Everyone played hard and contributed. They're coming together and pla...
ALAN KIRK

We've all played some tough teams and not played up to our potential. I think the district season wi...
ALAN KIRK

I think we're both probably different now. It was early, and we didn't play all that well.
ALAN KIRK

Some games we haven't had everyone playing up to their capabilities. That's been shown, too.
ALAN KIRK

I think we've beaten some strong teams and won some very good games. We've also lost some we should'...
ALAN KIRK

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT

Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of go...
KIRK DOUGLAS

The learning process continues until the day you die.
KIRK DOUGLAS

We made our assault at the end. And we made it with free throws.
KIRK CHENEY

It's the same old thing. They've got Snoop Dog showing up in their locker room. We've got Deputy Dog...
KIRK FERENTZ

You go into some churches and walk in and no one says 'hello' to you. That is not true here. The cam...
BOB KIRK

We talk a lot about mental toughness and the mentality of approaching the game, and we've done a goo...
KIRK HINRICH

The coaches felt like we were tuning them out or whatever.
KIRK HINRICH

I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A cha...
KIRK DOUGLAS

They may alter or modify the BCS, none of that is going to affect how we approach things. We're worr...
KIRK FERENTZ

All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and sudde...
KIRK DOUGLAS

My parents still don't understand how someone can win something by playing a video game, ... But the...
CHRIS KIRK

He said, basically, either go out and get embarrassed on [national] TV, or just start playing. We st...
KIRK HINRICH

Increasingly I've had to learn to be less single-minded, to manage the whole complexity. I'm still l...
DAVID KIRK

He's quite eloquent. Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, he's a very engaging, intellig...
KIRK JOWERS

From new chip architectures to advanced lithography technologies, IC manufacturers are innovating mo...
MIKE KIRK

The guys never hung their heads; they never got discouraged.
KIRK FERENTZ

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) "Two...
KIRK COUSINS

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Cong...
MARK KIRK

It's so much work to get tenure, it's hard to imagine that more than a tiny minority of people would...
ANDREW KIRK

Anytime you encourage critical thinking you risk offending somebody, ... ... I think the basic idea ...
ANDREW KIRK

What we're trying to do is to see whether telehealth is an appropriate way to follow patients with d...
ANDREW KIRK

If we want a great future in this world, we have to take God at his word, and God makes it really cl...
KIRK CAMERON

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becom...
KIRK HAMMETT

Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his tea...
MARK KIRK

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has...
KIRK HAMMETT

I just put the season behind me as far as a personal standpoint, and that is the most important thin...
KIRK MALTBY

That helps from my standpoint because I can be a little more aggressive. If you make a mistake you s...
KIRK WALTERS

I think my favorite movie is 'Joe Versus the Volcano' - or maybe 'Multiple Maniacs' ...
JUSTIN KIRK

There is no guarantee that Stevie is done this year. We just want to win the Stanley Cup. But if the...
KIRK MALTBY

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for thi...
KIRK GIBSON

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were whe...
KIRK HAMMETT

I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope ...
KIRK CAMERON

Mack doesn't do anything flashy, he just gets the job done. You know what you're going to get from M...
KIRK SALVO

Mack spent the whole ride taping his ankles and his headgear and visualizing. He's a step ahead of o...
KIRK SALVO

The guys can sense now the game is in front of them. Both teams, I'm sure, feel the same way.
KIRK FERENTZ

I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, ou...
KIRK HAMMETT

[But we are borne back to the father-son chat at the dinner table.] Was I a good father? ... You hav...
KIRK DOUGLAS

This was a more challenging project than we first anticipated. We knew we had to deal with launch, b...
KIRK PEGLOW

The guys returning from the (3,200) relay are quite enthusiastic about going back and doing better t...
BOB KIRK

It hasn't gotten to the point where it was like my rookie year, where we were getting booed every ga...
KIRK HINRICH

He actually just picked out the trash bag, and it felt heavier than what he expected, ... He looked ...
CHRIS KIRK

It was a bit of a surprise that on their first few dump-ins you were waiting for someone to come fly...
KIRK MALTBY

We just have to be patient and wait for our chances.
KIRK MALTBY

We're looking here at a whole suite of leaves that are previously undiscovered and undescribed, ... ...
KIRK JOHNSON

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax,
DAVID KIRK

Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific ...
KIRK CAMERON

It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousiesits as...
KIRK DOUGLAS

"The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the award...
KIRK DOUGLAS

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
KIRK DOUGLAS

She's not an overpowering pitcher but she pitches in spots and hits her spots well. I think she was ...
LISA KIRK

This was really the first game that we've been able to get people in position and move them around. ...
LISA KIRK

You basically have eaten poop from either another person or animal somewhere.
KIRK SMITH

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and ho...
KIRK HAMMETT

Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mi...
KIRK CAMERON

I'm not homophobic.
KIRK CAMERON

The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you h...
KIRK FERENTZ

it's got to be consistent with our overall strategy and two, is there value in it?
DAVID KIRK

David won't thank me for saying this but there have been a couple of things that have gone wrong in ...
DAVID KIRK

I'm passionately interested in the media and want to be engaged in it,
DAVID KIRK

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
KIRK HAMMETT

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar...
KIRK HAMMETT

On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took t...
KIRK HAMMETT

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for fiv...
KIRK HAMMETT

For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and hel...
KIRK CAMERON

We've got Oklahoma, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and LSU and they've been on the ...
KIRK WALKER

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.
KIRK CAMERON

[James Packer said this week that new technology had made the newspaper game] very scary ... Newspap...
DAVID KIRK

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I ju...
KIRK HAMMETT

Stick around for at least another year, Smith.
KIRK ARCHIBEQUE

They were athletes, and they were leaders and competitors. That's the parallel, ... The other parall...
KIRK FERENTZ

I've got a few bumps and bruises, but I'm confident that with treatment and a little bit of rest, I'...
KIRK HINRICH

On the bathroom scale he weighs 50 pounds. We took him out to the hog scales and he weighed 46 pound...
JOYCE KIRK

Both parties have just become experts at setting each other up on every piece of legislation. Rep. M...
KIRK JOWERS

A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.
KIRK HOZA

Have you ever told a lie? Then you are a liar. How many murders do you have to commit to be a murder...
KIRK CAMERON

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? ... You have the cure to death ... get out ther...
KIRK CAMERON

It's a unique distribution strategy. They're really out-of-the-box thinkers,
KIRK CAMERON

I don't like to be the go-to expert on biblical prophecy,
KIRK CAMERON

Hymns -- In The Garden,
KIRK WHALUM

A really cool thing about the Babyface Songbook is this is the first time that Babyface as a songwri...
KIRK WHALUM

[The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th...
KIRK WHALUM

The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodo...
DAVID KIRK

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
KIRK HAMMETT

When I first got here, I was in awe of him, and my buddies back in Toronto couldn't believe I was hi...
KIRK MALTBY

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

Kirk Acevedo

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