Steve Nash (Stephen John Nash) Quotes
You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I love action movies.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
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Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
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Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
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Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.
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That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.
