John Wooden Quotes
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Quotes to Explore
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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I want to win football games.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.
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I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron.
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Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
