Jerry West Quotes
I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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The big things that I've learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.
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His father thought he had a wond'rous wise look when he was born, and so he named him Solomon, thinking that if indeed he turned out to be wise the name would fit him nicely, whereas, should he be mistaken, and the boy grow up stupid, his name could be easily changed to Simon.
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Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.
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I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.
