Oscar Robertson Quotes
Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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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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I am a very selfish person.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
