Phil Jackson Quotes
I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.
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Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
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I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.
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My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.
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I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
