"A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting."

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Source : "Here’s How to Get Rich or Die Podcasting". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. December 25, 2015.

Alex Blumberg

#Interesting Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Boring Quotes

“Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.”
“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
“Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.”
“It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.”
“When we think weâ€™re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.”
“Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch herâ€”doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

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