Larry Bird Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.
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They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
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I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.
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If must also be remembered that, unless men are left to their own resources, they do not know what is or what is not possible for them. If Government half a century ago had provided us all with dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators to-day to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob.
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It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways of doing better. Not only practice; obviously you have to practice. But to invent things how to do better. If somebody doesn't know what invention means, he should stop violin playing! You can't explain everything... Not practicing only: Think how to achieve quality.
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
