Curtis Staples quote: "I would classify [a common thread] as confidence. You can see that J.J. is confident that he's going to make more than he's going to miss. It all comes from practice."

I've always said, like the old saying goes, records are meant to be broken. J.J. has been a hard wor...
CURTIS STAPLES

J.J. plays with that edge. When you see J.J. on the court, you can see it in his eyes. It's the eyes...
CURTIS STAPLES

I hope to work with [J.R.] this summer to take his game to the next level. I want him to be more agg...
CURTIS STAPLES

I'm very critical of J.R., but with a lot of constructive criticism.
CURTIS STAPLES

It was one of those things where you had this kid that could really shoot, and all the other kids we...
CURTIS STAPLES

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million pe...
VINCE STAPLES

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, t...
VINCE STAPLES

Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do...
VINCE STAPLES

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
VINCE STAPLES

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people becau...
VINCE STAPLES

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel...
VINCE STAPLES

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
VINCE STAPLES

Care and pity are two different things.
VINCE STAPLES

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.
VINCE STAPLES

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in the...
VINCE STAPLES

What's important to me is people just being people.
VINCE STAPLES

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
VINCE STAPLES

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
VINCE STAPLES

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wr...
VINCE STAPLES

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had t...
VINCE STAPLES

You're either ghetto or you're not.
VINCE STAPLES

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
VINCE STAPLES

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
VINCE STAPLES

It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have ...
MAVIS STAPLES

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're i...
MAVIS STAPLES

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
VINCE STAPLES

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only...
MAVIS STAPLES

I got it, looked at it and put in my file.
MONTEL STAPLES

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls ...
BRENT STAPLES

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick...
MAVIS STAPLES

He's like a shutdown corner. We put him on the other team's best player, leave them alone and totall...
MONTEL STAPLES

To have 36 points against one of the best front courts in the area and one of the best players in th...
MONTEL STAPLES

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see...
MAVIS STAPLES

I was fed up with this crap. I know that everybody that's here just wants something normal.
HANK STAPLES

I enjoyed reading the book. I think the story line is interesting and holds your attention. For us t...
DEREK STAPLES

I'd be real happy if the police arrested me. It'd be the best publicity I could get.
HANK STAPLES

Some girls have different strategies. They might not start out as fast. I know the other girls are t...
HALEY STAPLES

I didn't know what to expect, and it's been fun so far. I try to think of ways to make myself go fas...
HALEY STAPLES

I tell myself I'm almost done. As painful as it might be, keep going. All the others are back there,...
HALEY STAPLES

I don't believe everyone can live up to being No. 1. It's tough. You're supposed to be the best team...
MONTEL STAPLES

I don't think they did their arithmetic correctly. I think they needed an accountant to go over the ...
MARY STAPLES WEBBER

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one ...
CLIVE STAPLES (JACK) LEWIS

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was ...
CLIVE STAPLES (JACK) LEWIS

Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when y...
CURTIS JACKSON

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
CURTIS JACKSON

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
CURTIS JACKSON

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we ...
CURTIS JACKSON

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to ...
CURTIS STONE

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
TONY CURTIS

We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the...
ALAN CURTIS

[Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future...
ALAN CURTIS

But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra...
ALAN CURTIS

If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,
ALAN CURTIS

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio li...
KEN CURTIS

The (new structure) will allow us to create a faster and stronger multidisciplinary team, which can ...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

The Nokia 8800 is as much an object of art and desire, as it is an advanced piece of technology.
ALASTAIR CURTIS

The Nokia 8800 has clearly found an audience with individuals who appreciate quality materials and w...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

For many consumers, the mobile phone has truly become an extension of their personal style. Every de...
ALASTAIR CURTIS

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever a...
CURTIS JUDALET

The heartbeat is an irregular bell tolling; the footprints create ammonite patterns in the snow; the...
CURTIS ACKIE

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.
DONALD CURTIS

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out ...
CURTIS CARLSON

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can ...
CURTIS CARLSON

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
DONALD CURTIS

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to...
DONALD CURTIS

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.
CURTIS STRANGE

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you...
CURTIS CARLSON

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
CURTIS CARLSON

Visualization lets you concentrate on all the positive aspects of your game.
CURTIS STRANGE

We all choke.
CURTIS STRANGE

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
CURTIS SITTENFELD

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big...
CURTIS STONE

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go a...
CURTIS CARLSON

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
CATIE CURTIS

It was just one of those days where even though the swing didn't feel as good as it could have been,...
BEN CURTIS

I gradually just worked on the swing and started hitting the ball better. That led to making some pu...
BEN CURTIS

My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS

What I have to do is stay patient. You know you?re going to make some bad swings and, hopefully, you...
BEN CURTIS

When you win a tournament like that, actually any tournament, it doesn't matter; there's added press...
BEN CURTIS

Depending on how the course plays tomorrow, I'll feel prepared and ready to go.
BEN CURTIS

Hopefully, we are going to go somewhere next week and that's it. Going to spend a few days by oursel...
BEN CURTIS

I missed the fairway on No. 1 and was only able to get it up there close to the green. You can get s...
BEN CURTIS

I like it. It's an old-style golf course.
BEN CURTIS

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time...
CURTIS LEMAY

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoye...
CURTIS SITTENFELD

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and ...
DREW CURTIS

She was nervous playing the first match at No. 1, but she's got great spirit. She'll put the jitters...
ANN CURTIS

She's shown the most improvement I've ever seen from one year to the next. She's improved her game b...
ANN CURTIS

She's already tournament savvy. Players like Susan and Sarah and (current junior) Rachael (Johnson) ...
ANN CURTIS

Our mindset is split right now. They're thrilled they've improved, but they're also a little frustra...
ANN CURTIS

As she's gotten more confidence she's been shooting more consistent scores. She's been playing with ...
ANN CURTIS

She's been working on removing mental errors from her rounds. She's getting better at it.
ANN CURTIS

Last year we we progressed right away. When it didn't happen right away this year, we talked about c...
ANN CURTIS

We seem to have the most depth. But girls golf is a sport where you can see a lot of unexpected impr...
ANN CURTIS

She's got a surprisingly good short game and nothing bothers her. But her second nine in the 18-hole...
ANN CURTIS

We traditionally haven't played very well there. It's a course that's a little longer than it looks ...
ANN CURTIS

It's absurd, ... on the order of billions if not trillions to one. It's crazy.
ANTHONY CURTIS

If you want to know where Vegas is expanding, look at where the last (locals casino) opened and wher...
ANTHONY CURTIS

The same technology that gives a nation the ability to precisely launch rockets powerful enough to c...
ANTHONY CURTIS

This is something that's been ongoing forever and ever. As soon as you get two casinos next to each ...
ANTHONY CURTIS

That's really just the price of admission, and I'd give up 5 percent on pure entertainment value alo...
ANTHONY CURTIS

Video poker is contrary to the rule of thumb that you shouldn't play machine games. That's because t...
ANTHONY CURTIS

You'd feel incomplete now if you don't have a hip nightclub.
ANTHONY CURTIS

What they're doing now is they're making their locals casinos a more upscale brand. Maybe they're st...
ANTHONY CURTIS

But if this continues (fuel prices keep rising), you might start to see that effect.
ANTHONY CURTIS

The same technology that gives a nation the ability to precisely launch rockets powerful enough to c...
ANTHONY CURTIS

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better...
CURTIS STONE

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and ...
CURTIS LEMAY

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I s...
CURTIS STONE

I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of conseq...
CLIFF CURTIS

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted....
CURTIS JACKSON

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're gla...
DREW CURTIS

For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross ...
CURTIS STONE

These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to...
CURTIS STONE

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I t...
CURTIS STONE

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptis...
CURTIS JACKSON

I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry...
CURTIS STONE

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
CHARLES CURTIS

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracte...
CURTIS JACKSON

I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand...
CURTIS STONE

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll ...
CURTIS JACKSON

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow throug...
DONALD CURTIS

My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actua...
CURTIS JACKSON

In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I...
CURTIS STONE

I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was ama...
CLIFF CURTIS

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
CURTIS SITTENFELD

We were right there with them, we just didn't do the little things that would have got us the win. W...
BOB CURTIS

The girls really stepped up in Leanne's absence. They cut the lead to seven late in the third quarte...
BOB CURTIS

It was nice having everyone healthy and on the floor together. I could see the girls were anxious to...
BOB CURTIS

We have video of each time this has happened and we can tell it's the same man. And he also now has ...
BOB CURTIS

We put up a good fight in the first half, but their size really gave us fits in the second half. The...
BOB CURTIS

I was proud of our effort for three quarters. Unfortunately, we didn't finish the fourth quarter wel...
BOB CURTIS

Good discipline at the plate led us to an early lead and another win.
BOB CURTIS

The first half, they hit seven 3-pointers and really showed why they are a top contender.
BOB CURTIS

Defensively, we did what we needed to do to stay in the game. We held a very potent offense to 46 po...
BOB CURTIS

When you're stealing from Goodwill, you're also stealing from the people we're trying to put into th...
BOB CURTIS

He was a good guy and a good worker. We were all shocked. He was great to work with and we all enjoy...
BRANDON CURTIS

We experienced a deconstruction of our personal lives. Coming home to a familiar setting and being a...
BRANDON CURTIS

Passengers will know that if there is a problem on the bus, the driver isn't disconnected from help.
BRANDON CURTIS

There was no effort to abandon any aesthetic or embrace a new one this time around. But the songs ar...
BRANDON CURTIS

But for an agency the size of Corvallis, they are advanced, relatively speaking.
BRANDON CURTIS

We are just having a lot of poles down and wires down. We haven't had a lot of flooding. We have had...
BONNIE CURTIS

I guessed I lived in somewhat of a dream world, because I used to think actors did things just to do...
BONNIE CURTIS

It helped that Lawrence Bender and I both had access to those people. I personally knew Rita and Ral...
BONNIE CURTIS

It's causing a lot of havoc. But it's really not too bad.
BONNIE CURTIS

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed wa...
CURTIS JACKSON

[I want to convey] that there is hope?that we're a world that is in turmoil but there is hope. I'm a...
CATIE CURTIS

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
CATIE CURTIS

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to re...
CATIE CURTIS

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the...
CATIE CURTIS

I feel like it's more important for me to try and say what I want to say than to have the perfect rh...
CATIE CURTIS

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or...
CATIE CURTIS

The Ark is a great community that supports folk music. ...Ann Arbor reminded me of home. It reminded...
CATIE CURTIS

I spent some time this summer at a camp on Lake Michigan. I had the chorus of the song. A lot of the...
CATIE CURTIS

I worked with the elderly. I found that from the experience of listening to elderly people talk abou...
CATIE CURTIS

Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more va...
DONALD CURTIS

These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage.
CURTIS ARNOLD

I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.
CURTIS ARNOLD

The popularity of these cards has surged in the last year or two.
CURTIS ARNOLD

You have to think that economies of scale make this more plausible. We've created a behemoth in the ...
CURTIS ARNOLD

There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.
CURTIS ARNOLD

You may think this is the solution to all your woes, but this may not be a wise thing to do, because...
CURTIS ARNOLD

If you want to shop around for the best gas prices in town, you're still going to get that rebate.
CURTIS ARNOLD

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.
CURTIS ARMSTRONG

Every now and then say, 'What the f***.' 'What the f*** gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunit...
CURTIS ARMSTRONG

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.
CURTIS ARMSTRONG

[After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With...
CURTIS ARMSTRONG

This is a real underserved market.
CURTIS ANDERSON

This might be the biggest parade we've ever had.
CURTIS ANDERSON

I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.
CURTIS ANDERSON

We probably sell over 1,000 bags a week.
CURTIS ANDERSON

That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season.
CURTIS ALLEN

The national news has people afraid they can't even go outside without a mask and a full body suit.
CURTIS ALLEN

There are some groups that are resistant to vaccination because of the belief that influenza shot ca...
CURTIS ALLEN

Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend pa...
CURTIS ALLEN

The problem is that people don't see these diseases and think they no longer exist. These viruses an...
CURTIS ALLEN

There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the ...
CURTIS ALLEN

We suspect the transmission would be very low on airline flights, ... but probably not zero.
CURTIS ALLEN

My illusions range from romance to rowdiness.
CURTIS ADAMS

Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectatio...
CURTIS ADAMS

It was a nice little market to get into. I worked most of the casinos and became the magic guy in to...
CURTIS ADAMS

Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal to th...
CURTIS ADAMS

STREET by 50 is all about giving our fans the finest music experience we possibly can. The response ...
CURTIS JACKSON

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the pu...
CURTIS LEMAY

No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jorda...
CURTIS GRANDERSON

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
CURTIS LEMAY

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
CHARLES CURTIS

I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's fa...
CLIFF CURTIS

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.
CURTIS JACKSON

Jim screamed at me. But I deserved it. Right, Jim?
CURTIS JACKSON

We have tried to provide a real image of ancient Persia. According to historical documents, Persians...
JOHN CURTIS

We don't underestimate anybody. Because their record is whatever it is doesn't mean we underestimate...
CURTIS STINSON

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
TONY CURTIS

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and...
TONY CURTIS

I deserved those penalties, but sometimes you try to be proactive. It didn't work tonight.
CURTIS JOSEPH

It's a Catch-22. You want to show the fans what it's going to be like, but obviously they're going t...
CURTIS JOSEPH

We've been on the losing end of a lot of close one-goal games and fortunately tonight, we did a lot ...
CURTIS JOSEPH

I would classify [a common thread] as confidence. You can see that J.J. is confident that he's going to make more than he's going to miss. It all comes from practice.

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I would classify [a common thread] as confidence. You can see that J.J. is confident that he's going to make more than he's going to miss. It all comes from practice.

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