Allen Iverson Quotes
Everything that I do, everything that I say is magnified. I didn't think it was going to get out of hand like this.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.
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When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.
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Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
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Everything that I do, everything that I say is magnified. I didn't think it was going to get out of hand like this.
