Magic Johnson Quotes
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
