"You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don't show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other."

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Source : "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

Darryl Dawkins

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“The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.”
“The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.”
“Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.”

Source : "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.
“The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
“Now, now, hear me out," Hamish went on. "We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer." "Or distract him," Angus added. "Like the Bulgari job," Hamish said. "You mean the job that landed half the DiMarco family in a South African prison?" Kat said. Angus shrugged. "Nobody said it was perfect.”
“There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.”
“Hope is a song in a weary throat.”

Source : Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”
“You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.”

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