Jim Valvano Quotes
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I don't have many friends.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.
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I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.
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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
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Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
