Phil Jackson Quotes
You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.
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You gotta be able to change worlds.
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All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.
