Patrick Ewing Quotes
Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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All my songs are where I am.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
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I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.
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You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
