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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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Surely the stars are images of love.
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I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?
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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.
