Jim Irsay Quotes
You'd like to transition with continuity, have people in your own organization rise up and continue forward, whether in coaching or personnel or players.
Quotes to Explore
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
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But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.
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The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and … there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
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I used to hate being recognised.
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I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
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Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
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You'd like to transition with continuity, have people in your own organization rise up and continue forward, whether in coaching or personnel or players.
