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My dream was... LARRY BIRD I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebo... LARRY BIRD Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. CAROLINE BIRD A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into sk... LARRY BIRD Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. LARRY BIRD I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond. LARRY BIRD First master the fundamentals. LARRY BIRD Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. I... LARRY BIRD I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond. LARRY BIRD I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among... KAI BIRD I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most... ANDREW BIRD I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end... LARRY BIRD Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. The... ANDREW BIRD Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as ... LARRY BIRD Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have ... BRAD BIRD A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation... ANDREW BIRD I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. LARRY BIRD Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that'... ANTONIA BIRD If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is neve... SIMON BIRD I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd. BRAD BIRD I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re... ANDREW BIRD You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square p... ANDREW BIRD My shows are planned and scripted only so far as it allows me to lose the sense of where I am and ge... ANDREW BIRD [Correlation across replicated environments] adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environ... ANDREW BIRD It only takes a little change to make a SAN not work. The problems aren't noticed until the next fai... ANDREW BIRD You can't keep putting bodies against it. It's becoming too quick and complex. You have to automate ... ANDREW BIRD I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. BRAD BIRD If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people a... BRAD BIRD There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand ... ANDREW BIRD That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm inter... BRAD BIRD