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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The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.
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Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
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It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct; nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.
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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
