Red Auerbach Quotes
I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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I think everyone deserves their place in this sport, and Bisping has been around, and he's fought hard and deserves to be the champion.
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When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
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I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.
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The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
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A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.
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TV is the best babysitter.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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People are only loyal until it becomes convenient not to be.
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Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
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I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.
