Oscar Robertson Quotes
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I miss baseball.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
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I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
