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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated."
Being
"The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans."
Time
"I grew up in the heart of the Depression."
Heart
"You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life."
Life
"Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures."
Family
"Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to."
Success
"We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did."
Kids
"People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans."
Time
"That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition."
Intensity
"My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7."
Money
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