"I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives."

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Source : "Curious Guy: David Stern". Interview with Bill Simmons, www.espn.com. February 16, 2006.

David Stern

#Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”
“democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.”
“The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.”
“You can't put this possum in a cage”

Source : Song: I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, 1992
“I get along fine with the press.”

Source : "I was up at six. I've a party to go to. So what is it you want?". Interview with Rachel Cooke, October 1, 2006.
“[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.”
“Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.”
“... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.”

Source : Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”

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