David Blatt Quotes

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

David Blatt

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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

• 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

• I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

  

  Leeza Gibbons
  • Life
  • Heart
  • America

• It's about us going out there trying to impose our game on them and them trying to do the same to us and whoever does best will come out best.

  

  Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
  • Game
  • Best

• Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

  

  David Deida
  • Live
  • Kissing
  • Lips

• Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Cold

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

  

  David Blatt
  • Thinking
  • Winning
  • Championship