Magic Johnson Quotes
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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Being evil is easy.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I try to stay focused.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. [...] You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.
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As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
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There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
