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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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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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.
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Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
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By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
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I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.
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Rafael Chaves called me, but not Hugo Chavez.
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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.
