Moses Malone Quotes

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

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• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Truth

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Success

• Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Mother
  • House
  • Special

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Writing
  • Lost
  • Down

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Today
  • Growing

• I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Evil

• We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Thoughts

• I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Want
  • Ghetto

• There are two things that will blemish a retainer, and these are riches and honor. If one but remains in strained circumstances, he will not be marred.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Honor

• I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the landscape of current foreign policy. (about North Korea)

  

  Margaret Cho

• If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.

  

  Kabir
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Secret

• With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Age
  • Giving
  • Blessing

• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • House
  • Stupid

• The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • People
  • Fire

• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  

  Charles Sumner
  • Country
  • History
  • Beginning

• The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

  

  Moses Malone
  • People
  • Reason
  • Numbers