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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
Quote by -Mae West
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
Quote by -Mae West
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
Quote by -Mae West
I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.
Quote by -Madonna
I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
Quote by -Madonna
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
Quote by -Madonna
I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.
Quote by -Madonna
I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.
Quote by -Madonna
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Quote by -Madonna
I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright