Wilt Chamberlain Quotes
If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
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I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
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This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
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Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
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Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.
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... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
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I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during the sixties, not only obtained the same result through extensive experiments with peas, which lasted for many years, as did de Vries and I, but had also given exactly the same explanation, as far as that was possible in 1866.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
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A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
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Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in
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If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
