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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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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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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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.
