Roy H. Williams Quotes
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Who does understand life?
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I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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The risk of insult is the price of clarity.
