Andre Iguodala Quotes
I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
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I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
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With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.
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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
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I always go into a fight thinking the decision is going to be fair, and I relish these fights where the atmosphere is so fantastic.
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Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
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There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so.
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We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.
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I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.
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We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.
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I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates.
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If Patricia closed her eyes and breathed deeply, she could imagine the people unloading wooden foil-lined crates stamped with names of cities like Marrakesh and Bombay.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.
