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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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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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.
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I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.
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Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
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If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
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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.
