John Wooden Quotes
I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
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I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.
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I have them completely in hand here, they dare not take a step without first consulting me.
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When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
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It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.
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I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
