Jordan Quotes - Page 9

• You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

  Kanye West

  Nucleus, West, Egomaniacs

  "'I Am So Credible And So Influential': 8 Hilariously Narcissistic Lines From Kanye's NYT Interview" by Josh Kurp, uproxx.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

  Andrew Garfield

  Wire, Obsessed, Charismatic

  "Spider-man's Andrew Garfield Wants Mary Jane To Be Male" By Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Majority, Sides, Rebirth

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• You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense.

  Chris Lytle

  Support, Leader, Triangles

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• YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Dancing, Scum

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• Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park.

  Jason McAteer

  Player, Likes, Parks

  "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.

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• My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

  Jordan Belfort

  Queens, Wall, Years

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• Like I say, it's almost embarrassing to talk about. I don't know if Michael Jordan or Bill Gates or Alexander the Great or anyone is worth this type of money, but that's the market we're in today. That's what Mr. Hicks decided to pay me, and now it's time to pay him back and win a couple championships.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Couple, Winning, Pay

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• Kobe Bryant will be better than Michael Jordan

  Mark Jackson

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• I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Years, Trying

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• When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

  Kanye West

  Drawing, Mama, Grades

  "Zane Lowe. Kanye West. The Interview". Interview with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, www.bbc.co.uk. September 23, 2013.

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• A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

  Moshe Dayan

  Strong, Government, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's statement from the peaks of Massada (April 1973), as quoted in Avi Shlaim "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World", 2000.

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• Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

  Ehud Olmert

  Believe, Reality, Destiny

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• It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level, They talked about Michael Jordan and said he didn't have a jump shot. They say the same thing about me ? I can't throw the football and all that. Say whatever you want about me. It makes me strive harder.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Games, Levels

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• Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites

  Yasser Arafat

  Rejection, East, Jerusalem

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• Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

  Michael Wilbon

  Night, Enough, Concerts

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• If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.

  Anthony Eden

  Iran, Iraq, Effort

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• The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Player, Night, Use

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• People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

  Ferran Adria

  Basketball, Home, Thinking

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• After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Basketball, Team, Golf

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• I have a lot of Jordans, a lot of Nikes, a lot of Blazers.

  Teyana

  Nike, Blazers

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• I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Agreement, Rivers

  "Netanyahu finally speaks his mind". www.timesofisrael.com. July 13, 2014.

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• In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

  Jerry Sloan

  Funny, Basketball, Years

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• Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

  Phil Jackson

  Teamwork, Attitude, Player

  "Phil Jackson's new book focuses a lot on (who else?) Kobe Bryant" by Mike Bresnahan, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Basketball, Player, One Day

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