#make

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#because #big #big enough #down #enough

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#day #figure #game #hard #i

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way. ↗

— John Oates

#because #difference #different #each #easy

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#good #hard #i #just #make

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #body #claim #enter #her

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#makes #man #possible #ring #third

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. ↗

— Barack Obama

#desire #education #get #grades #investing

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #baby #daughters #first #first of all

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. ↗

— Barack Obama

#capital #capital gains #family #firm #form