Wilt Chamberlain Quotes
The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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I don't have goals in life.
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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
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I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.
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I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.
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As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, 'Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.'
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In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.
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I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.
