Jerry West Quotes
I'd go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I'd stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
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I don't want anything given to me.
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
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I'd go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I'd stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
