John Wooden Quotes
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.
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We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.
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I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.
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When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.
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The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'
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We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now.
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There are two types of directors: the directors who take and directors who give.
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I'm not a big practice guy at all.
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On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing.
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I'm a walkawayer. If someone brings me a really crap meal in a restaurant I will tell them it's wonderful and then just never go to the restaurant again. I think that's the best way to do it generally, rather than sit and fight and annoy your head. Just pretend to enjoy it and then leave.
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You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
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I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.
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Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
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Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
