Alonzo Mourning Quotes

The record pretty much tells it all. We have to improve to get where we want to be. There's no science to it.

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Things
  • Easy
  • Talk

• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Trade

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Small
  • Moon
  • Faces

• People don't care about questionnaires.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Care
  • About

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Color

• I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Imagine
  • First
  • Complicated

• Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Emotional
  • Mother`s
  • Reserved

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Poverty
  • Understand
  • Shows

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• A language is a compendium of the history, geography, material and spiritual life, the vices and virtues, not only of those who speak it, but also of those who have spoken it through the centuries. The words, the grammar, the syntax are a chisel that shapes our thought.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • History
  • Language
  • Grammar

• Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Power
  • Fear

• Having casual conversations with the likes of Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian makes me weak in the knees. I have so much respect and admiration for Lena that it doesn't matter how many times I talk to her - I get starstruck.

  

  Constance Zimmer
  • Respect

• The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

  

  Debbie Allen
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Picture

• The record pretty much tells it all. We have to improve to get where we want to be. There's no science to it.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
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