Red Auerbach Quotes

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

  Karl Rove
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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
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• I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
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  • Star

• I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.

  

  Tamar Braxton
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• I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

  

  Edie Falco
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• In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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  • Nothing

• I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.

  

  Taylor Kinney
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• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
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• I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

  

  Imogen Heap
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• Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

  

  Bill Bartmann
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• If what I went through on a national level, the trouble between me and my wife, if it helps one couple going through the same thing... if it saves one family, it's worth it.

  

  Vance McAllister
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• If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

  

  Red Auerbach
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