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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.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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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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What matters most is the win.
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
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I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
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We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
