Phil Jackson Quotes
Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
Quotes to Explore
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
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Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics.
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It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.
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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
