John Wooden Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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My sister died in Brooklyn.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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To renounce progress is as silly as to renounce the Earth's force of gravitation.
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Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
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I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
