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ROBBIE ROBERTSON The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don'... OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that teaching coaches are the norm now. OSCAR ROBERTSON But I like to think an athlete is an athlete. OSCAR ROBERTSON We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team. OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen. OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit... OSCAR ROBERTSON But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them. OSCAR ROBERTSON You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think ... OSCAR ROBERTSON You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a ... OSCAR ROBERTSON This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money. OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll... OSCAR ROBERTSON But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players wh... OSCAR ROBERTSON Basketball is basketball. OSCAR ROBERTSON You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot you... OSCAR ROBERTSON Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars. OSCAR ROBERTSON I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school. OSCAR ROBERTSON You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side pick... OSCAR ROBERTSON When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing agains... OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are... OSCAR ROBERTSON When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do... OSCAR ROBERTSON It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to ... OSCAR ROBERTSON You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the co... OSCAR ROBERTSON It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they co... OSCAR ROBERTSON I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the y... OSCAR ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don... PHIL ROBERTSON The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi He... ROBBIE ROBERTSON My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k... KAY ROBERTSON Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would sup... SI ROBERTSON If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming fles... PHIL ROBERTSON Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and peopl... DALE ROBERTSON An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himse... DALE ROBERTSON Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosex... PHIL ROBERTSON When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an ev... SI ROBERTSON Music should never be harmless. ROBBIE ROBERTSON JEANNE ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on som... SI ROBERTSON I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, le... ROBBIE ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big,... ROBBIE ROBERTSON In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me. ROBBIE ROBERTSON Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great ... OSCAR ROBERTSON We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu... PHIL ROBERTSON I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all creat... PHIL ROBERTSON It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control. SI ROBERTSON Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i... PHIL ROBERTSON Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i... ROBBIE ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character act... BRITT ROBERTSON People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy. ROBBIE ROBERTSON He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ... ROBIN ROBERTSON Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To ... ROBIN ROBERTSON Sense is nonsense to a fool. ROBIN ROBERTSON What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the r... ROBIN ROBERTSON I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck an... PHIL ROBERTSON You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's ... BRITT ROBERTSON It's about 50 percent more fuel-efficient than vehicles of today. It's totally clean. Absolutely zer... BERNARD ROBERTSON We make no attempt to try to run the vehicle on the electric motor, BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy, ... The way to get this car to market is to make trad... BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy. The way to get this car to market is to make trade-of... BERNARD ROBERTSON Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday. I don't have any further comment to make. BERNARD ROBERTSON PAT ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs... BETH ROBERTSON After 9/11, families were looking for things to do together and fun that was closer to home, and tha... BETH ROBERTSON There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronicall... BETH ROBERTSON One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States. BETH ROBERTSON At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presen... BETH ROBERTSON It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years.... BETH ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs... BETH ROBERTSON I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how ... BRITT ROBERTSON I'm just really happy I can be a part of this. ANN ROBERTSON That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them. ANN ROBERTSON They were there more to control the city rather than rescue anyone. ANN ROBERTSON It's like we kind of screwed up. ANN ROBERTSON We learned a lot about ourselves today. There were a lot of positives that came out of today, and we... AMY ROBERTSON Our goal for both field hockey camps is to challenge the participants and to make sure that they hav... AMY ROBERTSON This is the best all-around field hockey class we have ever signed at Indiana. They possess a high l... AMY ROBERTSON
Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She want... 
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now ... 
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... 
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properl... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no... 
He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi... 
(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she wer... 
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly wha... 
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... 
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... 
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... 
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, / Glowed on the marble. 
Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... 
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... 
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and i... 
you left 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart y... 
The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... 
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over 
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize... 
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins 
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... 
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. 
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was ... 
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... 
There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... 
I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things ... 
Might not live long but I know I'ma die happy. 
…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug... 
She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the uni... 
Percy was getting tired of water.
She was conscious of the moments passing like irrevocable time, irrevocable happiness, for in these ... 
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... 
Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. ... 
She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream.... 
She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical websi... 
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she ... 
This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she w... 
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. This is a big statement and it so... 
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip P... 
The Old Man and Death
An old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the fa... 
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the p... 
I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standin... 
Lie you easy, dream you light,
We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart's desire to do so whi... 
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. 
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his ... 
What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... 
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it... 
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. 
It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stol... 
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away. 
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State... 
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga... 
Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.