Pat Riley Quotes
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
Quotes to Explore
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I love my sleep.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
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My whole family has been such a great support, and they're the ones who have kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
