Elgin Baylor Quotes
They're good players, and the knowledge and experience the new guys bring to this team is invaluable.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'
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Traveling is the worst for skin, and it shows instantly. Once you're working non-stop, you can instantly see it.
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Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.
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Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.
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It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
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They're good players, and the knowledge and experience the new guys bring to this team is invaluable.
