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“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
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“Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated”
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“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”
Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008. 
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“If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.”
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”
Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.”
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“I get to keep you,†he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?†I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,†he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.†I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.”
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
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“The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.”
