Jason Williams Quotes
Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.
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In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
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Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
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The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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There were really funny characteristics about this guy Richard Nixon, chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.
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Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
