Pat Riley Quotes
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds ...
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For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
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Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
