Allen Iverson Quotes
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.
