Allen Iverson Quotes
I wasn't used to the attention, I wasn't used to having money, I wasn't used to being the main focus on an NBA team.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
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Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
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I wasn't used to the attention, I wasn't used to having money, I wasn't used to being the main focus on an NBA team.
