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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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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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
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The only thing we focused on was going out and playing the way we play: physical, smart, fast.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
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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.
