Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes
I respect a lot of players in this league. But to me basketball is just a little aspect of my life. I enjoy the game because it's fun. But it is a game.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I just want to do my job.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.
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I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.
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Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.
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I respect a lot of players in this league. But to me basketball is just a little aspect of my life. I enjoy the game because it's fun. But it is a game.
