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Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dikembe Mutombo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Politics I Am Try Never

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

Yourself Talent Surround Yourself You

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

Work Survival You Mouth Early Quit

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

Work Great Never She Two Great Work

Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.

Business Money Making Money Employees

I did not use a Cayman Island entity to avoid paying taxes for myself.

Myself Island Taxes Avoid Did Use

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Music Will Film Full Part Very

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Yourself You Back More Pretending

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Life Failure Fear New Things You

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Age Time Opinion Genius Ignorant

A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode.

Path Time Culture Man Moving Go

When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.

Good Performance You Bad Go Bring

Everybody thinks you're wrong and that you're a kid, and hence, you should shut up. Such reactions hurt me. I can think for myself.

Pratyusha Banerjee

Myself Me Think Hurt You I Can

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