Quotes About Adversity

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

Everything in life happens for a reason and it's important to embrace it.

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

When I first ran for City Council in 2013, I was told over and over again that I would likely lose, and for reasons beyond my control: I was too young, not born in Boston, Asian American, female.

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.

In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

I get miserable when I'm not playing well and it's in everyone's interest I rebound.

Covid did affect me for quite some time but my body healed. I repaired it and rebuild it.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.

As for Seattle, we are rebuilding - no doubt about it. And in the WNBA, it's not easy to rebuild. You can't dangle millions in front of quality free agents.

I had been on a lot of losing teams. Always rebuilding.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

As an actor, it is okay to fall and get up. Then you can give your best. Sometimes audiences don't receive it well, but you have to take it in the right sense. It is part and parcel of being in the industry.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

When you start your bobsled career at 30, a time when most are settling down into their 'real careers' and many are getting married, you can imagine the barrage of questions and the look of, 'You're doing what?' that you receive.