Focus Quotes

The people who have managed to make it to the top rung of the success ladder have managed to get there because of the fact that they never once took their eyes off their goals. If at all they took their eyes off their goals and objectives, which sure would have been a rarity, they would have been extremely quick to get right back on track. It is focus such as this that can help you see your dreams materialize into reality. Read on to come across a handful of popular quotations and sayings on staying focused in life.

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
Cherry Jones

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Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
People
Jennifer Lawrence

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As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
Success
Henry Cavill

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I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
Nature
Demi Moore

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Inspiration Light
Aristotle

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I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that laser attention on these characters rather than worrying about my kids.
MacKenzie Bezos

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Shopping is a great way to bond with the girls, but it definitely makes us focus on our bodies and compare ourselves to others. Something that should be a fun outing with the girls can turn into an uncomfortable experience.
Greatness Experience
Katherine Schwarzenegger

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I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
Light
Mickey Rourke

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That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.
Michael J. Fox

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I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.
Control
Deepika Padukone

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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
People Power
Larry Page

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I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
Goals Rest
Venus Williams

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I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.
Energy
Scarlett Johansson

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I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.
Patrick Mahomes

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Women in my focus groups, they say a bald man is trustworthy. He has nothing to hide.
Nothing Women
Kellyanne Conway

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You should always focus on training and consider it a step forward. And each step is taking you higher and higher until you reach the top, which is where you should stay.
Training
Kylian Mbappe

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I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
Life Time
Paul Walker

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Find things you're passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.
Opportunities
Nick Jonas

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The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.
Dax Shepard

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We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.
Bullying World
Ellen DeGeneres

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I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.
Michelle Pfeiffer

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It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
Drew Barrymore

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My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.
Work
Virat Kohli

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My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Life Pain
Jim Carrey

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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
Love
Jack Whitehall

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I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.
Good
Demi Moore

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When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
Good School
Elizabeth Olsen

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I think I've learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.
Work
Alexandra Daddario

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As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.
Strength
Phil Jackson

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley

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The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
Good
Joe Biden

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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
Wives Parenting
Stevie Nicks

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My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.
Effort
Virat Kohli

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I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
Character
Will Smith

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I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.
People Talent
Roger Ailes

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I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
Bryce Dallas Howard

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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
Lana Del Rey

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I try to come in with a focus to stop my man and win the game. I'm always trying to be ready to catch them off their strides by being physical enough without getting fouls.
Kawhi Leonard

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I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
Death People
Matt Bomer

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Oh, the brave music of a distant drum!
Music Pleasure Concentration Discussion
Omar Khayyam

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We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.
Shaquille O'Neal

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Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important.
People Health
Jennifer Lopez

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A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
People
Emilio Estevez

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Technology's role in human trafficking cannot be ignored. But if we focus on how to prevent human trafficking, technology also has a powerful role. Like Ashton Kutcher's app Thorn, which directly spots human trafficking and connects you with officials.
Technology
Jeannie Mai

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And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
People Media
Elizabeth Olsen

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Success Fear Mind Success
Brian Tracy

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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can't concentrate on it. People always say, 'You should have tried harder.' But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.
People
Leonardo DiCaprio

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But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
Funny
Charlie Sheen

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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
Money
Adele

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People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.
People Power World
Bill Burr

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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
Health
Salma Hayek

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I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.
Life
Steve Nash

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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
Work
Mahesh Babu

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A lot of coaches in MMA focus on MMA wrestling. My coach, his high school team is ranked 10th in the nation. Izzy Martinez is very connected to the wrestling community.
Community School Nation
Jon Jones

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I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
People Experience
Harrison Ford

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When I am shooting a film, then everything goes soft focus. My family also complains that I don't give them time.
Family Time
Aamir Khan

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I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.
Harry Styles

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My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.
People Work
Jesse Plemons

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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
Good Good Fortune Luck
Zoe Kravitz

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I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.
People
Chris Cornell

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My strength is my wrestling, but I don't focus on it as much. I try to focus on a lot of different things like knees, elbows, submissions, and submission defense - just a lot of different things.
Strength
Brock Lesnar

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Honestly, it's hard to deal with the haters, but something that has helped me is not to focus on the haters and to focus on the nice people!
People
JoJo Siwa

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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Nothing Ego Attention
Alan Watts

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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
People Anger Wisdom
William Arthur Ward

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I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls' education.
Politics Education Women
Jill Biden

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Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.
Love People Work
Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
People
Jeff Bezos

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I focus only on the work with my team-mates with Dortmund and Gabon.
Work
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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To become a striker, you need dedication, focus, and professionalism. When they pass you the ball inside the area, the first thing you think of is to score. To find the best way to finish.
Best
Edinson Cavani

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My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
Dennis Quaid

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Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.
Energy
Mukesh Ambani

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I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.
Greatness Love Parenting
Kourtney Kardashian

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I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
Family Greatness Stupidity
Kevin Spacey

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I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
Trying
Kobe Bryant

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It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.
Time
Brie Larson

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A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.
Work
Xi Jinping

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You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
People
Jessica Chastain

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I focus a lot more on the collective than the individual.
Edinson Cavani

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After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.
Gillian Anderson

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I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
Nicole Kidman

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Being the mayor of your hometown is the best job in America, partly because it's relatively nonpartisan - we focus on results, not ideology.
Best Jobs
Pete Buttigieg

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What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
Opportunities
Ted Cruz

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My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.
Life Fathers
Donald Trump, Jr.

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My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.
Cool
John Krasinski

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If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.
Greatness
Naomi Osaka

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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
Men Positivity Women
Pope Francis

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When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.
Greatness Rest
John Legend

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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
Time
Mackenzie Davis

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My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
Business Mothers
Nicki Minaj

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I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Pleasure
Matt Damon

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My dad just wants me to dedicate myself to playing and to focus on the ball.
Neymar

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I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.
Life Learning
Lindsay Lohan

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Sometimes I finish a movie, and I get used to a certain lifestyle, and when that stops, I get a bit lost for about a week. 'No one is bringing me lunch anymore - I've got to go do that myself?' I lose the main point of my focus.
Gerard Butler

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Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people.
People
Brett Kavanaugh

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The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.
People
Herman Cain

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My main focus is on my game.
Tiger Woods

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I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
Good
Mia Hamm

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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
Rafael Nadal

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I always said, 'Whenever I get pregnant, I'm going to embrace all of the body changes that happen.' My focus has not been on any sort of snap-back or anything like that, because your body won't be the same after giving birth, and if anything, that's something to be celebrated, embraced, and owned.
Body
Jurnee Smollett

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Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
Education
Magic Johnson

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