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.
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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.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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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.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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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.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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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.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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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.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
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I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.
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The record pretty much tells it all. We have to improve to get where we want to be. There's no science to it.
