Pat Riley Quotes
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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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.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck... and then we just go for a drive. That's it!
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My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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It also gives me the opportunity to stay in touch with basketball and it won't interfere with my school work at Mason City.
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Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.
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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
