Metta World Peace Quotes

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

Metta World Peace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 13, 1979

Topics

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In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Joan Armatrading

StepThinkAmericaYouOutsideSame

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Mel Brooks

LifeLoveFearEverythingBased

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Amanda Seyfried

ThinkSomeonePossibleShareMost

I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on 'Breaking Bad.' I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point.

Stephen Amell

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To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Mary Oliver

TruthMeBelieveTreesYouStone

Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth.

Lou Jiwei

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I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.

Julia Holter

MusicHopeThinkBadElitist

If you donate to a charity and save a few kids, 20 years down the line, there will be more people who exist because of you. In other words, you should consider your actions fully.

Diana Gabaldon

WordsPeopleCharityYouDownWill

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

Chesley Sullenberger

MedicalAviationWithinSystemFar

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Corrine Brown

CountryVeteransWhereComeRichest

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

Cory Michael Smith

WorldContributionQuestioningLot

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

Ariel Dorfman

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