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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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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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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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a family reunion, but it's not your family. So you don't belong - they're being nice to you, but you don't fit in completely; you don't know everybody's story. You don't have a history.
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
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Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
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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.
