Jerry West Quotes

I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Together
  • Help
  • Waiting

• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Job
  • Books
  • Library

• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Greek
  • Fruit
  • Yogurt

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• Everything and anything is valuable.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Everything
  • Anything

• Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Last
  • Patriotism
  • Refuge

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Confidence

• As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.

  

  Darren Flutie
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Support

• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Time
  • Children
  • Taken

• Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Time

• I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

  

  Jerry West
  • Time
  • Player