Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
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Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.