John Wooden Quotes
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
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There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
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We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
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Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
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For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
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There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.
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It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.
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Any day acting is an amazing day.
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We are going to make every effort to have a transparent administration.
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There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
