"I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard."

-- James Worthy

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“There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.”
“I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.”
“I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.”
“It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.”

Source : William Lyon Mackenzie King, John English, John O. Stubbs (1977). “Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate”
“If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.”
“I have seen some terrifically exciting changes with young players coming into the squad which is reinvigorated. The older players and the whole group has been refreshed by the youth and enthusiasm that has come into the team. I think that has been misunderstood and misrepresented in certain quarters to the detriment of Indian cricket.”
“The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.”
“You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers

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