Magic Johnson Quotes
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;Legions of angels can't confine me there.
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I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.
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You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.
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The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you're happy that you're playing. When you get to the middle of the season, everything is week after week, and it's all routine. But when it's Melbourne in January, you are fresh and you want to play. It's nice.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
