Eddy Curry Quotes
And hopefully, it'll be that way forever, because I don't want to be a part of any big controversy anymore. I was sick of talking about it. I just want to play basketball.
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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I grew up in a small town where we played around on motorcycles and things, but it really started when I got old enough. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
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Being nomadic isn't sustainable forever. I've gotten to be really good at it.
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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
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I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
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When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
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This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
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I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.
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Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
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I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.
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Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.
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People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.
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Basketball can only go for so long.
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
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I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
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I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.
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And hopefully, it'll be that way forever, because I don't want to be a part of any big controversy anymore. I was sick of talking about it. I just want to play basketball.
