"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions."

-- Hakeem Olajuwon

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“I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.”
“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.203, Transaction Publishers
“The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”
“I have an animal friendly Bible.”
“We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting on the zoning board meetings, on the zoning commissions. Those are the people I want participating in business improvement in their own industry. The gentrification processes that often happen in cities so often manifest in street sweeps of sex workers. How do you get sex workers on neighborhood associations, regarded as members of the neighborhood?”
“...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.”

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