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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As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
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I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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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.
