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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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.
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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
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I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.
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Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.
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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.
