Paul Pierce Quotes

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

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• People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren’t quite so simple.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • People
  • Simple

• We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Children
  • Family
  • Future

• Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • Fear

• I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

  

  Dylan Minnette

• I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Work

• No man is a hero in his own country.

  John Monash
  • Country
  • Hero

• Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Mind
  • Relationship
  • Picture

• Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Great
  • Mistake

• There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Attention
  • Fashion
  • Model

• I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Family
  • Sing
  • Everybody

• Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Voice
  • Instruments

• You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Game
  • Enjoy
  • Position

• Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Way
  • Wish

• Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.

  

  Haifaa al-Mansour
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Knowledge
  • Lovers
  • Deception

• I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• Books … hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • Music
  • Black
  • Cinema

• Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Feels
  • Missing
  • Shots