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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The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.
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I am super-comfortable with powerful women.
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The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.
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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.
