Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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This bikini made me a success.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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My philosophy is to be me.
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We had expectations of making it farther than people thought we ever could have made it. We even said we could win the whole thing -- that's how good we were playing. It just wasn't in the cards.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
