Allen Iverson Quotes
I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.
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It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
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I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.
