John Starks Quotes

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

John Starks

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GameRememberYouQuietReadyPlay

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

MotherWifePeopleThinkEarly

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Jermain Defoe

FlySometimesPreferUnavoidable

I'm really Americanized. The only real Latina thing I do is cook rice and beans with chuletas and tostones. I do the healthier version of what my grandmother would have made: a lot less salt, a lot less fat, a lot more vegetables. Sometimes I serve it with brown rice, which is, like, sacrilegious.

Andrea Navedo

FatVegetablesSaltSometimesMore

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

John Muir

FaithBestMenMountainsTreesWarm

Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some people would never invest in Europe - I think that's a mistake.

Robert J. Shiller

MistakePeopleThinkYouRiskNever

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Roger Ebert

TreeWomanMeNightWalkingBack

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Rob Corddry

FreedomJealousMediaMagicWantUs

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

Ron Chernow

PlansBrilliantUpSystemThinkers

I think people realize I'm truly an outsider.

Ron Johnson

PeopleThinkRealizeOutsiderTruly

It never dawned on me that I was sexy. I always thought of myself as the goofy kid.

Luke James

MyselfMeThoughtSexyNeverKid

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron

AloneSolitudeFeelingInfiniteFelt

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

Don Nickles

PurposeGovernmentPossiblePosition

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