Allen Iverson Quotes
I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
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I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.
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There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.
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As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations.
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I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.
