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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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
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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.
