Magic Johnson Quotes
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
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Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.
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If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?
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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor, it won't be obvious in two hours, but you'll begin to see his weaknesses over four or five days.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
