Joe Gibbs Quotes
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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I don't care about revenues.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.
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There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
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I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
