Paul Pierce Quotes

I just take what comes to me. If the drive is there, Im going to take it. If its not there, Ill take a pull-up shot. Im a confident player down the stretch and I feel like I can make the play when I have to.

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• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Question
  • Person
  • Everyone

• An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Culture
  • Enemy
  • Army

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
  • Rock

• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• I have always said that after sport, I wanted a life, I wanted an opportunity, I wanted to be able to do something. And if something happens - the economy falls out or the dollar is worthless, anything could happen - you have to be ready to work. And I'm ready.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • You
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  • Brains

• Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • King
  • Blue

• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Positive
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• The most violent element in society is ignorance.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Society
  • Ignorance

• The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.

  

  Anohni
  • Free

• As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.

  

  Anohni

• And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Why
  • Death
  • Purpose

• I like strong women. Physical women.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Women
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• The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Fearless

• Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

  

  Andreas Katsulas
  • Character

• He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Home
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Ideas
  • Directors
  • Shy

• No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Death
  • Happiness
  • Escape

• I just take what comes to me. If the drive is there, Im going to take it. If its not there, Ill take a pull-up shot. Im a confident player down the stretch and I feel like I can make the play when I have to.

  

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