Oscar Robertson Quotes
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I really hate to write.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.
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Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.
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Good luck to you if you're lucky enough to have faith. Some of us aren't lucky enough. My mother has great faith and finds great comfort in it, and I'm jealous of her!
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
