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.

Allen Iverson

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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 hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Art
  • Hope

• 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
  • Want

• 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

• A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Pretty
  • Humor
  • Anger

• If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Truth
  • Past
  • Value

• We will continue working to resolve the needs ... that have been accumulating for many years, even for centuries.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Needs
  • Working
  • Accumulating

• Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Work
  • Peace

• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Practice
  • Gods
  • Trade

• 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