John Wooden Quotes
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Quotes to Explore
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.
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It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
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As I refuse violence, I refuse to serve the violent.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
