Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
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We are aiming high in the Champions League and you will see a different team on Tuesday...
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After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
