Lisa Leslie Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
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I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.
