John Wooden Quotes
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
Quotes to Explore
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I love my sleep.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
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I can remember just learning to walk and trying to dance like Elvis and sing like Elvis, so I was very, very passionate about music at a very young age.
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You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.
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Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
