Pat Riley Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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You can never have enough talent.
