Larry Brown Quotes
When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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There's no business like show business.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.
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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
