John Wooden Quotes
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.
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My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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I think there's a contrast between being vulnerable and, you know, 'Girl Power!' I think it's important to have that balance because you don't have to be strong all the time.
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We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.
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The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.