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Oscar Robertson Quotes

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Oscar Robertson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: November 24, 1938

Topics

Sad Country Sometimes Say Race Real

I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'

Walking You Seeing Look Games Dead

My parents would say, 'Why don't you go out and play?' and I would say, 'I can't! I'm putting on my shows!'

Parents You Play Go Say Why

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

Trust Yourself You Go Want Outside

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Bad Sound Useless Without Basic

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Father Confidence Character Child Up

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And I won't have to listen to complaints about how wordy and long my work is if you can watch it on your telephone on the subway: You can make it conform to your day as if it were a book.

Work Day Start Book Long You

Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.

You Go Out Just Your Tried

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

Satire Cruel Weapon Quite

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life God Thoughts World My Life See

My inspiration comes from so many things, it is hard to give credit to one. I find music of all kinds to be a great inspiration. A melody or a lyric can fire my imagination. Exercise is another. Endorphins fuel my thoughts - I tend to work out scenes and dialogue when I am exercising. Reading is also a great inspiration.

Work Music Great Fire Imagination

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

Time Kid Kindergarten Up Lived

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.

Medicine Dark Need Level Get Still

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