Magic Johnson Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
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I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.
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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
