John Wooden Quotes
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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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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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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.
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Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.
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Attack your lashes with the wand. I think there's nothing wrong with doing that.
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One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
