Bill Russell Quotes
'What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?' - Russell: 'Not much.'
Quotes to Explore
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
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New York is in my DNA.
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I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.
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Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.
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'What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?' - Russell: 'Not much.'
