David Blatt Quotes

We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.

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• From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Movie
  • Hate
  • Feel

• I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Attention
  • Clothes
  • Too Much

• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Calm
  • Events
  • Quiet

• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Beauty
  • Point

• The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Short

• And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Hair

• I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.Primary chief poet Am I to Elphin. And my native country Is the place of the Summer Stars. John the Divine Called me Merlin, But all future kings Shall call me Taliesin.

  

  Taliesin
  • Country
  • Future
  • Freedom

• Logic is in the eye of the logician.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • People
  • Time

• I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

  

  David Gest

• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Fall

• Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.

  

  Winston Foster
  • Good
  • Music
  • Moving

• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  

  William James
  • Funny
  • Moving
  • Dance

• My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Families

• Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Political

• We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.

  

  David Blatt
  • Thinking
  • Winning
  • Championship