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Patrick Ewing Quotes

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

Patrick Ewing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: jamaican
Birth: August 5, 1962

Topics

People Me Basketball Game Laugh

While the transition from a combustion-powered society to electrification is already underway due to market forces alone, this transition will take generations without support. But we have every incentive - environmental, economic, and yes, moral - to speed the evolution.

Joe Kaeser

Alone Support Environmental Society

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

Jesse Ventura

Together Growing Up Growing Russia

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

John C. Maxwell

Best People Feel Understand Others

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

John Mayall

Mood Write Real Things Songs Goes

The thing that really sticks - and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same - is just thinking about the next day, the next week.

Ana Patricia Botin

Day Thinking Week You Say Talk

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Sid Waddell

Comeback Greatest Since

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

Robbie Coltrane

Children Great Time You Him Things

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Time Yellow Sun Writing Train Play

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

Britt Ekland

Son Care Diet Long Healthy Want

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Ariana Grande

School People Sorry Thought Feel

I understand that people talk, and frankly, I can't control that. There's no point in getting upset over a thing that you can't control. You just have to let it go.

Arjun Kapoor

People Control You Upset Understand

I like to be treated as a lady.

Sharon Stone

Lady Like Treated