Phil Jackson Quotes

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phil Jackson

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Pretty
  • Road
  • Famous

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wife

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good
  • Music
  • Value

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Fame

• I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Thought

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Project

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

  

  Johnathan Joseph
  • Guy

• With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • High
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Mother
  • Black

• For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

  

  Vladimir Prelog
  • World
  • Myself
  • Citizen

• The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Focus
  • Goal
  • Customer

• Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Wisdom