When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
MAGIC JOHNSONI grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
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Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.
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HIV changed my life, but it doesn’t keep me from living.
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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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We are also a company that understands community.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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I never think that there’s something I can’t do, whether it’s beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
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