Allen Iverson Quotes
I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Things didn't go the way we wanted tonight.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.
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A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I try all night to play a pretty note.
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A miss is as good as a mile.
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I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Things didn't go the way we wanted tonight.
