Alonzo Mourning Quotes
What I'll say is this: I respect his consistency. Never missing a game in 31 years, that's something.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.
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Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
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I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
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What I'll say is this: I respect his consistency. Never missing a game in 31 years, that's something.
