Magic Johnson Quotes
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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Chicago made me. They can treat me however they want to treat me anywhere else in the country. When I go back home, they treat me like I'm a star.
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I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
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The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
