Magic Johnson Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
