Larry Bird Quotes

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

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• I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • School
  • College
  • Wall

• The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Things
  • Idea
  • Causes

• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Say

• I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • May
  • Age
  • Know

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Want
  • Past
  • Mission

• Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Leaders

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Right
  • Got
  • Hipster

• There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Hand
  • Guitar
  • Masterpiece

• I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Eye

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Find
  • Theater

• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Acting

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

  

  Baby Face Willette
  • Real
  • Love
  • Hurt

• When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Friend
  • Fire

• When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Everything

• I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Mean

• I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Think
  • Enjoyed
  • Pleasant

• Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Yourself
  • Again
  • Push