Doug Collins Quotes

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Writing

• I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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  • Golf

• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Writer
  • Letter

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
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• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
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• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
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  • Stand

• I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• There's no people like show people.

  

  Irving Berlin
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• You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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• In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

  

  Ed Case
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• We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

  

  Joan Jett
  • People
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• Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Forever
  • Frustration
  • Instruments

• When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Question

• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Betrayal

• Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.

  

  Allison Jones
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• I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

  

  Doug Collins
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