Jim Valvano Quotes
I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
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It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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I really have the American dream licked.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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I want to be inside your heaven.
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I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.
