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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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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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'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
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I think, in all this race and competition, we actors forget how to have fun.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!
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Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
