Alonzo Mourning Quotes
There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
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Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.
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To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
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One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot.
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You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
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There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.
