Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

Hakeem Olajuwon

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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.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• 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.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • American
  • Political
  • Treat

• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Insane
  • Sanity

• They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Dominate

• My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

  

  OMI
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Baby

• The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Know
  • News

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Bigger
  • Overcome
  • Hurdles

• I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Need

• The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Poor
  • Crime

• 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Creative
  • Plan

• 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.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• 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.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• 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.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• What matters most is the win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Most
  • Matters

• Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Country
  • Day

• Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Care

• When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • International
  • Outcomes
  • Controlling

• When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • School
  • High
  • Basketball

• Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Basketball
  • Try
  • Blood