Phil Jackson Quotes
We were flat tonight. We are still not quite good enough to stay with a team like that.
Quotes to Explore
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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I see the value in every kind of music, even country.
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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
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God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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We were flat tonight. We are still not quite good enough to stay with a team like that.
