Jerry West Quotes

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

Jerry West

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• Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • America
  • Hate

• I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Funny
  • Deserve
  • Award

• In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Question
  • Dating
  • Take

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Think
  • Early

• If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Doing
  • Bored
  • Really

• From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Place

• I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Political
  • Science
  • Paris

• When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Family
  • Way
  • Stop

• If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are - then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith - from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion - from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Faith
  • Deep

• There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Plant

• Accidental stacks considered harmful.

  

  Larry Wall

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Art
  • Purpose

• What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Trying
  • Jesus
  • Challenge

• The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

  

  Joe Sakic

• I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

  

  Betty White
  • Women

• Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • She
  • Friendship

• My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Father

• I think love is important, but it's not popular.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Important
  • Popular

• The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Expectations
  • Clouds
  • Landscape

• Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Believe
  • Home
  • She

• A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • People
  • Jobs

• I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

  

  Jerry West