Alonzo Mourning Quotes
Because he draws so much attention and is so aggressive attacking the basket, I'd like to see him find the open man just a little bit more. He could average 10 assists a game if he made a concerted effort to do that. But the man is only 24 years old.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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I was a horrible student.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
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You call me Mr. Pitiful. Baby that's my name now, oh. They call me Mr. Pitiful. That's how I got my fame. But people just don`t understand, now. What makes a man feel so blue, now. Ooh, they call me Mr. Pitiful. Cause I lost someone just like you, now.
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.
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Coach Bo Pelini and coach Carl Pelini are two coaches I talk to on a regular basis, especially coach Bo. They are coaches I feel elevated my game.
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Because he draws so much attention and is so aggressive attacking the basket, I'd like to see him find the open man just a little bit more. He could average 10 assists a game if he made a concerted effort to do that. But the man is only 24 years old.
