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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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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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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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.
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Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
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My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.
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There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.
