Hakeem Olajuwon Quotes
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Practices were tough.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
