Alonzo Mourning Quotes
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
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There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
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Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common — not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons.
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I'm always worried about my money for some reason.
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The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
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I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
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I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.
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I was so overwhelmed by the amazing response I had from thousands of women saying they felt beautiful in my first collection, I wanted to design more clothes they could love themselves in.
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There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.
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It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.
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I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
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I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
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A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.
