Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes
Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
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I think Americans really need to start thinking globally. As resources become more dear, we will be pulled closer to the rest of the world anyway.
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Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
