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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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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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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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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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If it's stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You've planned, you've trained, you've done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that's facing you. And then after that, there's nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
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Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.
