Phil Jackson Quotes
Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I've learned never say never.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.
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I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.
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As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.
