Allen Iverson Quotes
When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
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As an actor, there's nothing worse than having to hide anything, because you're just so aware of it.
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The Welfare Reform Act comes up this year for renewal. Is the President supporting efforts to insert meaningful work requirements into the bill, for today there is none? — February 18, 2004
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When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.
