David Robinson Quotes
Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'
Quotes to Explore
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers
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The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
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I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'
