Alonzo Mourning Quotes
It's devastating to lose anybody in your family. But I don't know a man who's not close with his mom.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.
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Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.
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In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.
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I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.
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It's devastating to lose anybody in your family. But I don't know a man who's not close with his mom.
