Larry Bird Quotes
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.
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I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
