Adam Silver Quotes
I'm a huge fan of the game. It's beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the league office. I watch a ton of games in person, on television, on all forms of new media I follow the league. And so it's just beyond my wildest imaginations to me to now be the commissioner of the NBA.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing; she is just so beautiful.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
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I'm a huge fan of the game. It's beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the league office. I watch a ton of games in person, on television, on all forms of new media I follow the league. And so it's just beyond my wildest imaginations to me to now be the commissioner of the NBA.
