Alonzo Mourning Quotes
If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
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Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.
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It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.
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I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.
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Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
