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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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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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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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
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I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.
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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.
