- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have records on the field and do things on the field. That's what this is about.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot appreciate anybody who creates controversy over things which do not exist. I can tolerate controversy over things which truly happened, but not over inexistent things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that Dirk has done for this league and for the Dallas Mavericks, it's unbelievable. And Coach Kidd was a teammate of Dirk, so for Jason Kidd to compare me with Dirk Nowitzki, it feels nice. It's a nice compliment.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to score when I can, but if I can't do that, I like to do the other things - defense, blocking, rebounding.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
- Motivation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are stages in life in which you have to bring things to a close because of motivation.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
- Charming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
- Composite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020