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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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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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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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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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.
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As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.
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I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
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They're good players, and the knowledge and experience the new guys bring to this team is invaluable.
