David Stern Quotes
Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.David Stern
Quotes to Explore
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
Ralph Bellamy -
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
Abdus Salam -
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
Vera Farmiga -
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly -
I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
Ice T -
I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin -
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
Babyface -
Education is neither eastern nor western.
Malala Yousafzai
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
Wayne Rooney -
Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
Ted Deutch -
I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
Ilya Ilyin -
Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
Maelle Gavet -
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
Magic Johnson -
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
Ian Mckellen
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I'm very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it's a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It's never calculated.
Jeremy Scott -
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
Kate DiCamillo -
I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.
Andy Roddick -
When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.
Don Zimmer -
Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.
David Stern