"First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass."

-- Yao Ming

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“Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.”
“I'm cheaper than Anthony Hopkins.”
“Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.”
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
“Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.”
“A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.”
“Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing wasÂ expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: â€œThe principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.â€”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc
“The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.”

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