James Naismith Quotes
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.
James Naismith
Quotes to Explore
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V. S. Naipaul
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
J. B. Pritzker
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
Gary Barlow
Take That
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I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
Dan Wheldon
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
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I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
T. J. Miller
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
Victoria Woodhull
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Naomi Wolf
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
Anthony Doerr
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For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives.
Geoff Mulgan
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Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
Anna Paquin
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I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.
Margaret Qualley
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In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
Zac Efron
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Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.
James Naismith
