Phil Jackson Quotes
Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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I was a horrible student.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.
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I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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Most of the quarterbacks I've dealt with when they're young have had setbacks.
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Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
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To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.
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Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.
