John Wooden Quotes

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

John Wooden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1910 - June 4, 2010

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I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'

Jimmy Fallon

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My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Jessica Raine

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I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

John McGahern

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Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

Michael Horton

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Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Stephen Mangan

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I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.

Jay-Z

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I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people?

Jordan Gavaris

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I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

David Walliams

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I think any girl would throw me under a bus to be within five feet of Robert Pattinson. I actually think he's an attractive guy. And I watched most of 'Twilight,' and I think he was really intriguing.

Paul Wesley

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In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

Shelley Duvall

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In many cases, companies use the crisis moments to pivot to do better. We like to be part of that.

Richard Edelman

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