Jordan Quotes - Page 9

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

  Teyana

  Nike, Blazers

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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 very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Thinking, Rope

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• He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.

  Charles Barkley

  Winning, Nba, Want

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• You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion.

  Kordell Stewart

  Hockey, Nhl, Woods

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• The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Horse, Blood, Two

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• The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!

  Tracy Morgan

  Comedy, Truth Is, Good Things

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• It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

  Bailey Chase

  Growing Up, Chicago, Eras

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• 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

  Bob Costas

  Running, Nba Championships, Utah

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• When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldnt play, they could sing.

  Chuck Brown

  Men, Play, Shoes

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• I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Nba, Bridges

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• As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air Jordan 9s.

  Carmelo Anthony

  School, Kids, Air

  "Carmelo Anthony talks Michael Jordan, Collecting Sneakers and More". Interview with Brock Cardiner, www.highsnobiety.com. February 2, 2015.

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• A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in.

  Tucker Max

  Basketball, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, London

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• Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

  Will McDonough

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

  Tom Segev

  War, Egypt, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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