Alonzo Mourning Quotes
I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.
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Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.
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I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens to me is that I will fall in love with a particular ingredient or a particular dish... Once I make the decision that something has intrigued me enough to draw me in, there is no end to it.
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When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.
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I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.
