Magic Johnson Quotes

You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

Magic Johnson

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My grandmother and my upbringing filled me with the spirit of the church and the spirit of the faith brought by Africans to the new land during slavery.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.

Jesmyn Ward

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The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

Andrew Denton

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One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

Michael Enzi

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The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Tom G. Palmer

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The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding.

Ron Schiller

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When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn't really expect it to be a career path.

Ross Butler

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Politicians love to beat up on guys that are seen to be public enemies, if you will. That's a great way to get elected.

Martin Shkreli

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There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

Luke Hemsworth

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We thought we could reinvent the way people came together for live events. We wanted to ticket everything from a five-person yoga class to a 10-person cookery class to a fashion event.

Julia Hartz

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One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.

DeRay Mckesson

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