"Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle."

-- Bill Fitch

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“Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.”
“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.”
“I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.”

Source : "Bernard Manning has his last laugh" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2007.
“With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.â€™”
“So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting.”
“We [Frisch and Lise Meitner] walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot (she said and proved that she could get along just as fast that way), and gradually the idea took shape that this was no chipping or cracking of the nucleus but rather a process to be explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus was like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself.”
“Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.”
“People are very uncomfortable when you call actors artists because there are a lot of actors out there that aren't artists - there are a lot of actors that are hired for very specific reasons that are shallow and have to do with sexual currency and what the industry thinks sells. Real actors are artists, they're expressionists.”

Source : "Family Ties". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2016.

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