Oscar Robertson Quotes
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Women are sacred.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
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When is a man free? Now when he is driftwood on the stream of life... free of all cares or worries or ambitions... He is not free at all... To be free in action, in struggle, in undiverted and purposeful achievement, to move forward towards a worthy objective across a fierce terrain of resistance, to be vital and allow in the exercise of a great enterprise - that is to be free, and to know the joy and exhilaration of true freedom. A man is free only when he has an errand on earth.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
