Wilt Chamberlain Quotes

Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

Wilt Chamberlain

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• The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Live
  • Future

• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Step

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • People
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Work
  • Home
  • Like

• I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Sell

• A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Family
  • Education
  • Daughter

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

  

  Flume
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Beauty

• I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Book
  • Help
  • Self

• Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Commercial

• Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Nice
  • Morning
  • Crazy

• The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

  

  Pia Zadora
  • Career
  • Past
  • Husband

• I feel like what Director Bong is so amazing at is taking so many things and presenting them to you - never telling you how to think, but, if you leave the theater thinking something, we've done our jobs right.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Amazing

• I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

  

  Dennis Farina

• I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Audience
  • Write
  • Require

• All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Compassion

• Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Basketball