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Allen Iverson Quotes

Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.

Allen Iverson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1975

Topics

Time Man Waiting People Me Sick

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

Robert Hass

Year Earth Every Forgives Previous

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.

Ronnie Milsap

Life Father Mother God Me Thought

As a kid growing up in Chicago, I've been shot at before. I remember I very calmly went down on the ground. Afterwards, you're like, 'Omigod.' You just don't have time to think.

Michael Pena

Time Growing Up Think Remember You

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

Joseph Brodsky

Knowledge Isolation Reality You Idea

As a child growing up in Ireland, you would have to go to Dublin if you wanted to go to the luxury brands. And I remember my mother being too uncomfortable to go into some of those stores. I want to get rid of the barrier.

Jonathan Anderson

Mother Child Growing Up Luxury You

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

Christopher Alexander

Power People Reality Buildings Way

It is very clear from the text of the Geneva Conventions that families have the right to know about the whereabouts of their missing and that belligerents have a duty to inform families if they have indication and if they are detaining people.

Peter Maurer

People Know Duty Right Missing Text

Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

Pete Hoekstra

Destroyed Nigeria Large Itself Chad

Relationships. Ugh. You have to laugh sometimes.

Sharon Van Etten

Laugh You Sometimes Relationships

I now realise I'm a great actor.

Noma Dumezweni

Great Now Actor Realise Great Actor

As it pertains to my black womanhood, there's just a lot of ground to cover. There's a lot of stuff to say.

Kelela

Black Say Ground Just Stuff Cover

Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we'd look away and stop feeding her empire.

Koren Zailckas

Look Stop Fame Why She Empire