Phil Jackson Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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That's a great job for (Larry), ... (There's) a lot of money there. It's home.
