Larry Bird Quotes
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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That's the way it was every time I studied it.
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Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.
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One must manifest discipline of spirit; without it one cannot become free.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
