Allen Iverson Quotes
We thought we had chances to get back into the game. We turned the ball over here and there, and they did what great teams do - they took advantage of it. When you are playing against a good team like (Detroit), you have to take advantage of the opportunities and you can't throw the ball away.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I'm a woman, and if you've ever met my mother, you should know that's not even in the cards. She's much tougher than I am - she's a retired schoolteacher, so she's seen it all.
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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
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Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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We thought we had chances to get back into the game. We turned the ball over here and there, and they did what great teams do - they took advantage of it. When you are playing against a good team like (Detroit), you have to take advantage of the opportunities and you can't throw the ball away.
