Oscar Robertson Quotes
When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.
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My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
