Jordan Quotes - Page 10

• Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

  Eboo Patel

  Writing, Sri Lanka, People

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• Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to say Michael Jordan is better than Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Every generation has its great player. There's never going to be one player that's so above and beyond anyone else.

  Diana Taurasi

  Player, Bird, Magic

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• I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.

  Tyson Chandler

  Heart, Opportunity, Games

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• I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

  Eric Dickerson

  Golf, Talking, Years

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.

  Merle Haggard

  Jesus, Home, Land

  Song: From Graceland To The Promised Land

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• I don't care whether you are me or Michael Jordan, it makes no difference we are all going to feel that way but it is what we do about what we feel that isn't comfortable that separates the people who do really well verses the people who just meek out existence.

  John Assaraf

  Differences, People, Care

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Science, Medicine, Eugenics

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• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  Abdallah II

  Hands, Palestinian, Security

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• I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

  Dwyane Wade

  Chicago, Grew Up, Grew

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• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Basketball, Differences

  "Kanye West Compares Himself to Hitler". www.usmagazine.com. August 08, 2011.

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• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  Panayiotis Zavos

  Cloning, World, Rich

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• i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

  Robert Jordan

  Book, Son, Fire

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• Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Games, Differences

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• Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn’t want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, War, Iraq

  Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005.

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• She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so powerful, but that the world was so weak. It could be read, certainly, in its weakness, as on days when the sun baked fallen apples in orchards and the valley smelled like cider, and cold nights when Jordan had driven Chadds Ford for dinner and the tires of her Chevrolet had crunched on the gravel driveway; but the world was fungible only as images. Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Powerful, Real, Night

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• This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, Fighting, Men

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Taken, Mean

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• I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Phones, Pockets

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• I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?

  Cassandra Clare

  Responsibility, Feelings, Pants

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1526, Simon and Schuster

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• Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level." "Oh, I'm sorry--this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little unclear about the rules. Are we seeing other people in this fake relationship?

  Julie James

  Sorry, Taken, People

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.50, Penguin

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• the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "Yes," said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Vampire, Javelin

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• Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  My Birthday, Answers, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.106, Atlântico Press

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• You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

  Charles Schumer

  Two, Majority, Want

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• We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Technology, Thinking, Oil

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• I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

  Abdallah II

  Believe, Energy, Nuclear

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