John Wooden Quotes
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.
Quotes to Explore
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
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Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
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Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
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Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.
