Stan Van Gundy Quotes

As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don't want to deal with it.

Stan Van Gundy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 26, 1959

Topics

PoliticsPeopleYouSkinPersonal

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

Jill Scott

MePhiladelphiaNothingOutMinutes

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

Anna Deavere Smith

WorkSchoolTalkingActingTrueWay

It's not so much that I don't like traveling, it's just that I love being home. I love being able to spend time with my friends.

Andy Roddick

LoveHomeTimeFriendsBeingJust

I think when someone is so passionate about what they do, sometimes emotions come to the top, and you just get to that boiling point where you have to let it out.

Alyssa Edwards

ThinkSomeoneYouEmotionsSometimes

I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.

Sophie Hunger

MusicMyselfMeMusiciansCountry

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Tori Amos

YouSometimesNeedInspirationTake

Reality is always extraordinary.

Mary Ellen Mark

RealityAlwaysExtraordinary

It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.

Joseph Bruchac

AmazingMeTearsTrailLittleStill

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

Jon Meacham

MemoriesChildhoodI AmRiverFarm

My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

Dolores O'Riordan

WomenGirlDressMomSingingYou

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Dick Fosbury

MomentTeamTrainAthleteNever

My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me.

Dennis Farina

BestMeYearBeenDownhillAfter

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