Allen Iverson Quotes

I think a lot of it has to do with the trade deadline being over. Guys are comfortable now that they?re going to be here.

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• I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • Done
  • Fun

• When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Business
  • Same

• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Going
  • Where
  • Places

• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Growth
  • English
  • Genuine

• I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Night
  • Single

• Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Loved

• To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • England
  • Outsider

• I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Hungry
  • Eater

• Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Children
  • Learn

• These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • My Life

• Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
  • Long
  • Career

• You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Respect

• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Play
  • Interest
  • Create

• I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Jokes
  • Affection
  • Racial

• When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Look
  • Need

• I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Person

• My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Pool

• In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Invention

• Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Writing
  • Ability
  • Medicine

• I keep up with guys from the OSU days. Rusty Martin from Checotah, he was my roommate for three years until he got married. Larry Elliott from Elk City. Charlie Durkee, who was a kicker for us. Leon Ward, who drowned in a boating accident, was another good friend. We still have reunions. We all go back to the spring game. We talk about how good we used to be, just like everybody does. As you get older, it's really great to see guys you struggled with. That's what made the Dallas Cowboys close. That'....

  

  Walt Garrison
  • Guys
  • Close
  • Dallas Cowboys

• I think a lot of it has to do with the trade deadline being over. Guys are comfortable now that they?re going to be here.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Guys
  • Trade
  • Deadline