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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I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
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So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his 'naked' philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine.
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It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love.
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
