Quotes By The Day - Page 96

conlor · 08-20-2008, 20:38

Isaac Hayes
(8/20/1942-8/10/08)
American Singer, Songwriter

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Hey, let me tell you I worked years to achieve artistic excellence, ... and then all of a sudden, I get involved in this stupid, crazy, insane cartoon and now I'm hotter than I've ever been. I love it. I love it.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

conlor · 08-21-2008, 20:26

Wilt Chamberlain
(8/21/1936-10/12/1999)
NBA Great Center, LA Laker, 5 Time MVP

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
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But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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I believe that good things come to those who work.
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I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
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I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
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I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
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If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
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It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
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They were willing to do anything to stop me.
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With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.
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You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

Snowden · 08-21-2008, 20:36

We just can't have that 666 number out there, Connie!

Some of these quotes from Wilt Chamberlain are funny!

conlor · 08-21-2008, 22:10

Thanks for saving us!

conlor · 08-22-2008, 20:55

Ray Bradbury
(8/22/1920 - Age 88)
American Science Fiction Writer

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

conlor · 08-23-2008, 12:39

Edgar Lee Masters
(8/23/1868-3/5/1950)
American Poet

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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Only after many trials for strength,
Only when all stimulants fail,
Does the aspiring soul
By its own sheer power
Find the divine
By resting upon itself.