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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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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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 love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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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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People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
