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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.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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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
