"I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player"

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Kobe Bryant

“Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull.”

Source : Daphne Merkin (1997). “Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations”, Crown
“My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.”
“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
“We're not looking at banning all weapons.”
“Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.”
“It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.”
“Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.159
“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”

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