Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
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That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.
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When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.
