Paul Pierce Quotes

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

Paul Pierce

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• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Opinion
  • Bike
  • Too Much

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Place
  • Cruelty
  • Stands

• Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Changes
  • Possible
  • Own

• When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Ask
  • Sexuality

• I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Team

• When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Information
  • Unknown

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Power

• I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Hate

• I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Work
  • Night
  • Proud

• I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.

  

  Bill Pullman

• Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Fun
  • Song

• My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

  

  Amy Weber
  • Job
  • Drama
  • Shoes

• The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Fashion

• Some believe that the FBI has these phenomenal capabilities to access any information at any time - that we can get what we want, when we want it, by flipping some sort of switch. It may be true in the movies or on TV. It is simply not the case in real life.

  

  James Comey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

  

  Don Gibson
  • Writers
  • Accomplished

• The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Earth
  • Moving
  • Sound

• I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Basketball
  • Lasts
  • Possession