Phil Jackson Quotes
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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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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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.
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The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Gary Payton was instrumental. ... He was the difference in the game.
