David Stern Quotes

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

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• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• There are different reasons to make movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Reasons

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Funny

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • See

• Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Film

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Me
  • Information
  • Try

• Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Home
  • Joy
  • Colleagues

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Believe
  • You
  • Same

• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Up
  • Like
  • Wall

• You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Find
  • Irish
  • Jews

• People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

  

  Lauren London
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Single

• Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.

  

  David Quammen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• If you speak about violence against Israelis, you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Terrorism
  • Monopoly

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Up

• I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

  

  David Stern