Bobby Knight Quotes
I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
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In India we have a readymade world of fantasy available in Indian mythology. And this is why we see such a surfeit of characters drawn from mythology. I don't think it's because the present day humanity is soulless.
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It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.
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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
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Harry Dresden: Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
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I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.
