Jim Valvano Quotes

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

Jim Valvano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1946 - April 28, 1993

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Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

Joe Perry

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I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

John Entwistle

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When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

Matthew Desmond

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I guess, after a race, I'm just trying to get all my fluids back in my system - we use a lot of fluids when we get out and race. My dad always does this thing he calls 'juicing' - tomato juice, apple juice, orange juice - doesn't matter what it is, just go ahead and juice your body right back up.

Tori Bowie

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We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

Ronnie Hawkins

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When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed.

Mary Gauthier

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I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Mary MacLane

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I still remember the first acronym I learned, BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front. I still try to communicate that way. No reason to dance around getting to the point.

Mike Pompeo

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I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

Michael Korda

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Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

Clemence Poesy

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I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

Ashton Eaton

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Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Shannon Miller

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