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.
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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.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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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.
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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.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's also important, particularly for privileged kids, to involve them in charitable activities. It's a way of raising consciousness for your kids so they don't get totally sucked into the materialism and celebrity culture.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
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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.
