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Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Dikembe Mutombo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Community Service Basketball Back

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Minnesota Only Raised Governor Ran

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

Cheating Problem You Whatever Get

I am the American Dream.

American Dream I Am American Dream

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Life Good Balance I Am Joy Think

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Stephen LaBerge

Night Reality You Dream Dreaming

I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions.

Family Stars Beautiful People Gay

I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.

Me Down Sometimes Basics Something

The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.

Luxury You Intimacy Vocabulary Your

My career has gone in such a way that I've gotten to learn that, when you're working with a great storyteller, you don't ask questions; you just trust them.

Great Trust Learn Questions You Way

My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.

Clemantine Wamariya

Words Blue Yellow Green Night Pen

I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.

Love Mother Opportunity Decision Job

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.

Mother Together Down Sewing Never

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