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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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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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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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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The remarkable thing about 9/11 was that journalism pretty much put down its badges. People didn't worry about reacting as human beings. People who weren't reporters reported. David Letterman was sort of a brilliant reporter for a second - but it was a way nobody had ever covered a story. They just presented what was inside themselves.
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My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.
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There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
