Jerry West Quotes

I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.

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• Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Best
  • Educated

• Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Saying

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Live
  • Friends

• You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Important
  • Forget

• 'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Same
  • Data

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Future

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Some people are just right for you.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • You
  • Some People

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Love
  • Why

• At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • People
  • Bad
  • Same

• My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.

  

  Jon Jones
  • People
  • Kids
  • House

• I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Things
  • Function
  • Whipped Cream

• Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.

  

  Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas
  • Stop
  • Eyes
  • Mean

• So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.

  

  Kelly Preston
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Husband

• Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Different
  • Children
  • Career

• I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Winning