Jerry West Quotes

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

Jerry West

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I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

Jennifer Ehle

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I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

Steve Garvey

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It's the one with that panel of ultra-chichi folks. The one called 'What's My Line?' It sends me straight up the wall. I call it 'The Snob Family.'

Stan Laurel

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I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Torrey DeVitto

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I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

Toni Collette

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Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about.

Tom Perez

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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Rosanne Cash

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You want the match to be like a roller coaster, so you can't predict it.

Mick Foley

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You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

Mira Nair

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I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like.

Josephine de La Baume

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I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

Chevy Chase

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The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.

Arvind Gupta

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