Allen Iverson Quotes

Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Children
  • Thought
  • Husband

• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Mobile Phones

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
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  • Important
  • Change

• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
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  • Social

• When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
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  • Novels

• We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

  

  Ed Markey
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• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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  • Action

• I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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  • Shoes

• I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

  

  Karen Elson
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  • Skin

• The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.

  

  Jack Germond
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• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

  

  J. William Fulbright
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• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
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  • Thinking

• I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there's reverberations, consequences. That's what I'm interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

  

  Kristoffer Polaha
  • Science
  • Study
  • Magic

• I love Sam Peckinpah.

  

  James Wan

• Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

  

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