Jim Valvano Quotes
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.
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This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
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Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
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But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.