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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There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.
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I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.
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It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.
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When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
