Dirk Nowitzki Quotes

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• More modern poetry is written than read.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • More
  • Modern

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Job
  • Think
  • Grateful

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • New York

• My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Country
  • May
  • Marriage

• My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Space
  • Study

• Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Way
  • Hit
  • Los Angeles

• If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Doubt

• I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Disappointment

• My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Weekend

• If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Live
  • Mountain
  • River

• In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Perfect
  • Improvement
  • Trends

• I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Time

• I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
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