Anthony Davis Quotes
I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.
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As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
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It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.
