Allen Iverson Quotes
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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I don't buy cars I can't drive.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
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I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly!
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Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
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You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
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Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.
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Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. I think a lot of the mistakes that we made are definitely preventable, but they're a lapse of mental awareness and that happens with fatigue. I'm not trying to make excuses. This is just the reality of the situation.
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I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.
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Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.
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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
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He gave me an excuse, and I didn't buy it.
