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 think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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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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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
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I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.
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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
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I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
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I am grateful for the sacrifices our veterans have made to defend our freedom and prosperity.
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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.
