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 also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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I can't sing or dance.
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I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.
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I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.
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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.
