Brander Matthews Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.
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A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.
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When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
