John Wooden Quotes
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.
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I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
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The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.
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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
