Bum Phillips Quotes
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I am not honest.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
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Ted Cruz is the Schroedinger's cat of politicians. He is both eligible and not eligible to be president.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
