David Stern Quotes
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.
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Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive.
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But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.
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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
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When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
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It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
