Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.
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A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
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I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
