"I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history"

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Source : "Teaching Greg Oden How to Be a Benchwarmer". Interview with Mark Titus, grantland.com. May 8, 2014.

Greg Oden

“In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being”
“The great problems of lifeâ€”sexuality, of course, among othersâ€”are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.”
“I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.”
“Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.”
“One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his or her ancestors and use that knowledge to master, understand and become able to create institutions that allow him or her to live in harmony with the rest of nature and the universe.”
“With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art.”
“The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.”
“My father was an extraordinary man.”

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