Jerry West Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.
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It was a beautiful day to grow up.
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We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.
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I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
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You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.
