Alonzo Mourning Quotes
Come on, man. He's 24 years old. When I was 24 years old, I could play all year round. I was always looking for a run. Always.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.
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Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.
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Come on, man. He's 24 years old. When I was 24 years old, I could play all year round. I was always looking for a run. Always.
