#stepped

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#china #completely #i #i see #lacking

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#direct #doing #energy #focused #had

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#never #really #songwriting #stepped

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it. ↗

— William Sessions

#because #find #fool #forward #i

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#guy #here #his #microphone #movies

The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#combinations #contributions #course #duties #father

I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#childhood dream #did #down #dream #fans

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#bass #being #front #i #mandolin

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#knew #like #onstage #second #stepped

The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#anything #arms #best #bryant #embrace