Jerry West Quotes

There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.

Jerry West

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• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • American
  • Think
  • Fall

• I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • School
  • Friends
  • Me

• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Doubt
  • Smoking
  • Statistics

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Games
  • Facebook
  • Networks

• 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Death
  • Lies

• I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Good
  • Grateful

• If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Amazing
  • Role
  • Anything

• If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

  

  Kajol
  • Me
  • Said
  • Salt

• Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Sick

• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Wish
  • Politics

• We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Best
  • Choice
  • Be Prepared

• The best part about poker is there's no down side.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Best
  • Down
  • Poker

• A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nothing

• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Church

• I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Balance

• As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

  

  Confucius
  • Stop
  • Progress
  • Mound

• I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.

  

  James Jackson Toth
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Exist

• My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Country
  • Perfect
  • Friend

• There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.

  

  Jerry West