"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

People, Children, Job

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"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

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"I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go."

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"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

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"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."

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"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."

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"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."

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"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."

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"The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done."

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"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

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"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."

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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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