Jerry West Quotes
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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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.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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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!
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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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.
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The best part about poker is there's no down side.
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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.
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With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
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I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else.
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I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.
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Lots of things should be, but aren't.
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There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.
