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Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

Dikembe Mutombo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: June 25, 1966

Topics

Day Man People Wake Up You Dying

Instead of fantasizing about food, I'm fantasizing about the WWE championship.

Jinder Mahal

Food Championship WWE About Instead

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

Jessie Ware

Think Appreciate Now Want Ahead Far

Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on... So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music.

Anat Cohen

Family Home Music Culture American

I'm not one of these guys who says, Now I'm on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

Jeff Probst

Better Now Ridiculous Quit Hot Get

I feel flattered that people like the way I look, but it doesn't help you win points.

Ana Ivanovic

People Win Feel Help You Look

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

Travis Scott

Me Three Old First Years Drum

I can never remember a time when I didn't want to be an actress, to be honest. And so, all through high school, I knew that I was gonna go to college in Los Angeles. I just didn't know where. And I knew that I was gonna try to get my theater degree.

Mikaela Hoover

Time School College High School Know

A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music.

Julia Holter

Life Music Personal Personal Life

I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?

Jasmine Guinness

Day Me Saying Thought Laugh Horse

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

Deborah Eisenberg

Honor Magic Early First Prize Been

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Arthur Ashe

Education Love Women Power Respect

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

Annie Jacobsen

Technology Engineers Hallmark Many