"Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career."

-- Jalen Rose

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“Every fear hides a wish.”

Source : David Mamet (2015). “Mamet Plays: 2: Reunion; Dark Pony; A Life in the Theatre; The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond”, p.286, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.”
“At one oâ€™clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors for treason, ordered the creation of a new carp pool and banned limericks. Worse still, no progress had been made in tracking down the Kleptomancer, and of the two people believed to be his accomplices, both had been released from prison and one had been appointed food taster. Right-Eye was not amused. He had known for centuries that he could trust nobody but himself. Now he was seriously starting to wonder about himself.”
“My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor”
“We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warriorâ€™s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.”
“You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.”
“First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute â€”including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the worldâ€”the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.”

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