Norm Sloan Quotes
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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There's only one secret to bachelor cooking - not caring how it tastes.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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I've found that the more friends I have, the luckier I am.
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Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.
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Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.
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Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.
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Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.
