Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.
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One wanted children; had them, and brought them up: and then, in spite of all the calculations of time and care, they defeated one by producing a result which seemed, to say the least, almost mathematically incorrect.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
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I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.
