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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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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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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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
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The subject matter of the show, 'Cabaret,' was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn't have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.
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'If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.'
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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
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You should remember that I started as a fanboy many years ago; I saw 'A New Hope' more than twenty times in the theater. I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' nearly thirty times.
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Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
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There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.
