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.

Allen Iverson

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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'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like 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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• It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

  

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• We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

  

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• I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionist, and of course family and friends. It truly is a team effort, both when you are dealing with diabetes in regular life and also on the racetrack.

  

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• The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

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• But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

  

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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.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Money
  • Team
  • Attention