Pat Riley Quotes
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
