The Finals are about a test of wills.

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

The players have to come and play. Today we did.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.

We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.

You know what, man? I don't have time to worry about what people think. I'm focused on the youth of America. I'm focused on the kids who are dressing like whores. Because that's the message in the media.

In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.

There's tons of members of the Carradine family. It's more like a clan than it is like a family, and it's rare that we can get a bunch of them together. We do once in a while.

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make however determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness because we have to live wi

I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

I'm happy with the way I look but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own physical bodies with their eyes, and are unable to rise to what is spiritual, were incarnated among earlier peoples as Greeks, as Romans, and as ancient Egyptians.

Keep smiling and Stay strong. Even if things are falling apart. Even if youre breaking down.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

I do think that narrative, long-form nonfiction is the perfect form because it's rooted in something very real, but we're also, you know, completely spiritual, emotional creatures driven by all sorts of desires and needs.

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

I don't take any project lightly. Every project is important for me. In fact, every scene in every film is important.