Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.Dikembe Mutombo
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
Laura Miller -
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
Irwin Thomas -
I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
Pat Paulsen -
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
Orlando Bloom -
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
Felicity Jones
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
Abby Elliott -
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx -
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta -
I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
Malin Akerman -
I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
F. Gary Gray
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The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
Kate Bush -
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.
Nana Mouskouri -
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali -
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
Dan Stevens -
I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
Landon Donovan -
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
Beatrice Webb
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We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Mignon McLaughlin -
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
Frank Gehry -
We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.
John Key -
There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.
Carol Kane -
It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.
Dikembe Mutombo