Jordan Quotes - Page 12

• I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stories, West, Common

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5. It ain't to play games with you, it's to aim at you, probably maim you. If I owe you I'm blowin' you to smithereens.

  Jay-Z

  Games, Play, Aim

  "Song: "Numb" (Album: "The Black Album")". 2003.

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• In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

  Kathleen Battle

  Escaping, Rivers, Heaven

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• Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, June, Sea

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• Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Done, Lebanon, Citizenship

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• All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Queens, Native American

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• Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, 'Let me cross over,' the men of Gilead asked him, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he replied, 'No,' they said, 'All right, say Shibboleth.' If he said, 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Fourty-thousand were killed at the time.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Men, Together, Survivor

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• Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Years, Play

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• Michael Jordan makes you bring your game to another level. That's why I loved competing against him.

  John Starks

  Games, Levels, Competing

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

  John Starks

  Player, Nba, Games

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• "We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."

  Ahmad Shukeiri

  War, Army, Effort

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• We've decided [with Jordan Peele] that we need to be on the Internet for a little bit of time every day to figure out what's going on. It feels like we're working. It feels like you're all typing and you're searching.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Needs, Littles, Internet

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's Michael [Jordan], then there's the rest of us.

  Magic Johnson

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• Here's something that I believe we have to do as we put together an international coalition, and that is we have to understand that the Muslim nations in the region - Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Jordan - all of these nations, they're going to have to get their hands dirty, their boots on the ground. They are going to have to take on ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Dirty, Isis

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• I remember back in the day, when Jordan wore the 7s, something magical always happened. He always performed at high levels, but it was something different when he laced up the 7s. Some of the Jordans still have that juice that MJ left in them, and the 7 is one of them.

  Nate Robinson

  Different, Juice, Levels

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• I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.

  Michael Gove

  Past, Years, Numbers

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• [My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mother, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Judging, Political, Female

  Source: content.time.com

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• Magnus called me and asked me to come and see you. He tried to reach you, but he couldn’t. He wants you to put him in touch with the Praetor Lupus.” “Put him in touch with…” Jordan shook his head. “You can’t just call the Praetor. It’s not like 1-800-WEREWOLF.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Werewolf

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

  Sylvia Plath

  Religious, New York, Believe

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.

  Julie James

  League, Care

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.213, Penguin

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• And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still won’t go out with me —” “JORDAN!” yelled Professor McGonagall. “Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest —

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Fun, Player

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• You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Kings, Differences, People

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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• Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music, whether it's to learn a cover song that we're going to play, or to review Dream Theater music - he always uses charts. That's what he knows. I really rely a lot more on memory.

  John Petrucci

  Dream, Song, Memories

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?" "A fat cloud." Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?" He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds and three thin ones.

  Judith McNaught

  Eye, Clouds, Dragons

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Something Wonderful”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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