John Wooden Quotes
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This love is silent.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.
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I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
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I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
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'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?
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Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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For all the opportunities that arise from the Fourth Industrial Revolution - and there are many - it does not come without risks. Perhaps one of the greatest is that the changes will exacerbate inequalities. And as we all know, a more unequal world is a less stable one.
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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
