Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Hell is indefinite.
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If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
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I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?
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I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
