Rick Pitino Quotes
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.
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It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.
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Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
