Magic Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
