Jordan Quotes - Page 6

• Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

  Michael Redd

  Growing Up, Thinking, Magic

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.

  King Hussein I

  Destiny, Play, Inspire

  "A Field Guide to Jordan’s Battle Against ISIS" by Marc Ginsberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2015.

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• We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them. The government in Jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. But anti-American dictators like [Bashar] Assad, who help Hezbollah, who helped get those IEDs into Iraq, if they go, I will not shed a tear.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Iraq, Perfect

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I've always respected [Michael Jordan] but I've never been a fan of his [Jordan's].Because everybody else is.

  Tim Duncan

  Fans

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

  Louis Bacon

  Winning, Gold, Olympics

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• People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.

  Michael Jordan

  Fun, Tired, Past

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• We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Race, Two, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

  Justin Timberlake

  Basketball, Growing Up, Player

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm gonna do clothes, but stuff that kids can afford. I want to get into the high fashion world very soon, but the stuff I want to start out with is the small stuff, for the kids, that anybody can afford the Nikes, or the Jordans, Or let's say they can't afford the big brand name clothes, so I would make a lower end line but still high-quality.

  Chris Brown

  Nike, Fashion, Kids

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Brother, Kings

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 146, 1980.

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• What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?

  William Gurnall

  Reading, Mean, Wine

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• Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I was growing to, how Arabs were cast as the aggressors in the dispute between Israel and the Arab countries, when it was their land that had been seized to resolve a European political problem.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Reality, Israel

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• I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on the deck in my Air Jordans before I swam, I'd write 23 on my cap. I'm just a huge Jordan fan.

  Summer Sanders

  Writing, Air, Fans

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• Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.

  George Habash

  Rivers, East, Forget

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• The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not of more declarations.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Army, Israel, Egypt

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• Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

  Bill Walton

  Skills, Bird, Strenght

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• It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

  George W. Bush

  Kuwait, Egypt, Important

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• Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser has so many uses, so it's my secret cleaning tool for keeping my shoes - like the vintage Air Jordan's I am obsessing over now - and my clients' shoes, scuff and dirt free.

  Brad Goreski

  Air, Vintage, Shoes

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• Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

  Roland Lazenby

  Book, Race, Media

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• As fate would have it, Jay's status appears
  To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye
  When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.

  Jay-Z

  Goodbye, Fate, Perfect

  Song: Encore vs Numb, Album: Collision Course

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• Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are really part of a very big advertising program, and the fact that they make so much money is because the markets have dictated that they get that money, and the fact that they endorse our products allows us to sell more products and create more jobs.

  Phil Knight

  Money, Jobs, Woods

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• Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

  Frank Carlucci

  Kings, Qatar, Effort

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• Empathy provides more than just information about relationships. It is an expression of being in relationship. It is not just a means to better healing relationship, but because it recenters relationship as a central organizing feature of psychic life, empathy itself is healing. The experience of being known and accepted deeply by another, being aware of another being aware of you, what Jordan calls "mutual empathy".

  Maureen O'Hara

  Healing, Mean, Expression

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• The best players are always in the thick of the action. (Michael) Jordan did it with the Bulls, (Kobe) Bryant does it with the Lakers and Leo does it here. We want him to stay with us because he's the best and we wouldn't swap him for anyone.

  Ronaldinho

  Player, Lakers, Doe

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• We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Taken, Two, Amman

  "Iraq: Indonesia reporters missing". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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