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My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?' ↗

— LeBron James

#am #around #deeper #did #father

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players. ↗

— LeBron James

#best #bring #carry #court #determination

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about. ↗

— LeBron James

#field #get #help #high #high level

I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper. ↗

— Lily James

#clothes #get #i #i love #jeans

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#category #different #i #language #parents

You knew? How the hell did you know?" he demanded,wondering which bastard in his family had ratted his ass out. "It wasn't too hard to figure out, Trevor," she murmured, looking totally enthralled with what she was doing. "What the hell does that mean?" He'd been careful, very careful. He'd never read anything in front of her, never wrote anything more than his name or a word or two in her presence. There was no way she could have found out without one of his interfering relatives clueing her in. "Who the hell told you?" Zoe rolled her eyes even as she leaned over to press a quick kiss on his lips, which made him slightly happy, but not enough to forget that he needed to kill one of his relatives. "You never read anything around me. You think you tricked me into reading for you. Then there was the time we ran out of condoms and you flipped out because you thought there was supposed to be 42 condoms in the box of 24." "Would it have killed them to put a few extra condoms in the box so that you could have seen to my needs?" he asked, remembering that damn night and trying not to wince. Okay, so maybe he gave himself away...just a little. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#rl-mathewson #trevor #zoe #family

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#aggression #agree #calmly #dialogue #engage

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support. ↗

— Ferguson Jenkins

#another #charities #eight #i #involved

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#camp #counselor #devotional #i #job