John Wooden Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
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There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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Facebook is not the world.
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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
