Julius Erving Quotes

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1950

Topics

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It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Jimmy Connors

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On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

Jim Gerlach

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Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

John Rhys-Davies

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Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

Stephen Hawking

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Mary Astell

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It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak.

Michael Rosbash

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For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

Mona Eltahawy

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I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I'm not always the best with expressing emotions and understanding my emotions.

Aquaria

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We are made up of multiple emotions. And it would be unnatural to completely eliminate even one or two or three of those. It's impossible. You'd become a robot if the emotions weren't there.

Phyllis Smith

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I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be - or as John Doe says in 'Seven,' 'We are not what was intended.'

Scott Derrickson

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