Magic Johnson Quotes
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.
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I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
