Magic Johnson Quotes
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
Rachel Platten -
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson -
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Aaron Paul -
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. Bell -
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
J. J. Abrams -
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund -
I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
Gavyn Davies -
The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
Laura Linney -
I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
Hanneli Mustaparta
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
B. B. King -
The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
Beau Willimon -
My opinion can be completely different after a show.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
Dan Gertler -
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
Aaron Sorkin -
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
Angie Dickinson -
My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
Mary Garden -
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.
Douglas Rushkoff -
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
Natan Sharansky -
Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.
Dylan Penn -
I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
Magic Johnson