Larry Brown quote: "You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire."

Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I...
LARRY BROWN

Maybe some of his decisions were a little misguided.
LARRY BROWN

I don't think you can focus on the record. It's a marathon.
LARRY BROWN

I'm happy writing full-time and I've been making a living off it so far. I haven't had any complaint...
LARRY BROWN

We didn't make any passes except to them.
LARRY BROWN

We'll have a very thorough, open search that's nationwide,
LARRY BROWN

Even in the overtime, ... Eddy missed one and Jamal missed a wide-open jumper ...
LARRY BROWN

We got really aggressive, especially when we went small. We got loose balls, we didn't turn the ball...
LARRY BROWN

I can understand the league's point of view, but I'd like to put Stu Jackson and [commissioner] Davi...
LARRY BROWN

I could understand the league's point of view, but I'd like to put Stu Jackson or David Stern or one...
LARRY BROWN

If you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the outcome of a game. And I'v...
LARRY BROWN

I think we got discouraged.
LARRY BROWN

You're not always blessed with a roster that's what you truly wanted,
LARRY BROWN

We got beat on dribble penetration and that was huge. They have a bunch of guys that can shoot and p...
LARRY BROWN

He's exactly what we need. I think it's a no-brainer. I haven't seen a drop-off in his game.
LARRY BROWN

When Marbury gets 15 assists and one turnover without Jamal in the game, you realize why we won. He ...
LARRY BROWN

The thing that always makes me partial to guys like him, all hockey players, is all they ever talk a...
LARRY BROWN

I heard it. I grew up coming to this place. I never imagined that would ever happen to me. Obviously...
LARRY BROWN

If you don't examine yourself after every game there is something wrong. I don't get too caught up w...
LARRY BROWN

I'm glad he won the slam-dunk contest, but I don't think they have a scoring system like that when y...
LARRY BROWN

This is not an individual sport. Everywhere I went it's about team. I've been coaching the same way ...
LARRY BROWN

I think Steve is strong enough to guard [shooting guards] and quick enough to guard [point guards]. ...
LARRY BROWN

It's sore. It's going to be painful if he gets hit.
LARRY BROWN

The older you get the harder it is, ... I'm not a good flier. I'll take my Valium when we get to Flo...
LARRY BROWN

Pop told me he had about four guys almost tripped over cords. We had a couple of guys almost stumble...
LARRY BROWN

He's in terrible shape, but that's to be expected. This is like training camp for him.
LARRY BROWN

Wherever I've been it's always been about team. That's the only thing that really matters. If that d...
LARRY BROWN

He told me he was stiff, he said go to Jamal (Crawford). I've said the same thing for four days now.
LARRY BROWN

He was phenomenal. I kept (Curry) in with four fouls and we made a little run and then boom, he's ou...
LARRY BROWN

Every game matters. At the end of the year, this is what they do: They put the wins and losses up. O...
LARRY BROWN

He doesn't know any plays. Not that we ran any the first half.
LARRY BROWN

Sammy goes 1-for-6 but he impacted the whole game. He was phenomenal.
LARRY BROWN

After that conversation everything was very positive. I thought he really bought into what we were t...
LARRY BROWN

They started out pretty darn good, but when you lose an Allan Houston, you know, your best player, i...
LARRY BROWN

We've always cooked at the fire department to raise funds. We've probably cooked up a ton of barbecu...
LARRY BROWN

I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team.
LARRY BROWN

Basketball started for me in this city and I want to be here when it's finally time for me to stop, ...
LARRY BROWN

You're coaching a storied franchise, ... I want to see this franchise respected, being a contender e...
LARRY BROWN

I heard he said he was out until the All-Star break, so I don't have to answer it any more. That's w...
LARRY BROWN

It depends on who the guys are. I've heard Michael do it. Because everybody knew he tried to do ever...
LARRY BROWN

I don't think you guys ever heard me say I wasn't pleased with the way he was playing until the last...
LARRY BROWN

I don't think you guys ever heard me say I wasn't pleased with the way he's playing until the last g...
LARRY BROWN

He told me he was here five weeks ago. He said we'd gotten better. That makes me feel good.
LARRY BROWN

David has a lot of the things Bobby had. He's athletic, he can rebound, he can run, he can handle it...
LARRY BROWN

I don't look at him as a sub. ... I want him to get major minutes. He's on the floor at the end of g...
LARRY BROWN

We just want ballplayers. I don't get caught up in positions. I think Steve is strong enough to guar...
LARRY BROWN

That's his wife up there. We were worried about Kendra. He saw her fall back and someone flailing.
LARRY BROWN

I think everybody on this team cares deeply about him. We've got to just be supportive.
LARRY BROWN

We grew up a lot. I'm proud of the way they played.
LARRY BROWN

I don't enjoy this feeling. I feel for those guys in the dressing room. We have to figure out a way ...
LARRY BROWN

After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone"
LARRY BROWN

It's a great feeling. When you look at this league, to be in it this long, you feel lucky.
LARRY BROWN

When the (season) is over, we've got two first-round picks, we've got expiring contracts, we've got ...
LARRY BROWN

If I saw him go up there, if I'd have known what was happening, I probably would have went up there ...
LARRY BROWN

You can't guard him. He's phenomenal. We had nine turnovers in the first quarter and you can't guard...
LARRY BROWN

He's your leader, he's arguably your best player. We got a young team. They look up to somebody like...
LARRY BROWN

(Rivers) told me he felt early in the game it was over.
LARRY BROWN

They were exhausted, that was one thing. And two, I didn't want to put them in that position yet.
LARRY BROWN

We had a horrible quarter in the third quarter ... we had gotten it down two and it was a long posse...
LARRY BROWN

We had some slippage. We were careless with the ball, our shot selection wasn't as great, but when t...
LARRY BROWN

There's no way you can guard if you don't compete. I think they feel like they are competing, we hav...
LARRY BROWN

I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.
LARRY BROWN

Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do...
LARRY BROWN

I can understand why people jump off bridges.
LARRY BROWN

I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please...
LARRY BROWN

I didn't know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was...
LARRY BROWN

After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.
LARRY BROWN

He told me that he'll be ready on Tuesday.
LARRY BROWN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
LARRY HOGAN

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War...
LARRY NIVEN

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
LARRY WALL

Most jokes state a bitter truth.
LARRY GELBART

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the co...
LARRY PAGE

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...
LARRY FLYNT

I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
LARRY WILMORE

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
LARRY WILMORE

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the c...
LARRY WILMORE

You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you d...
LARRY WILMORE

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
LARRY WILMORE

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh ev...
LARRY WILMORE

My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm w...
LARRY WILMORE

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
LARRY WILMORE

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
LARRY WILMORE

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies th...
LARRY WILMORE

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that ...
LARRY WILMORE

When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing i...
LARRY WILMORE

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
LARRY WILMORE

I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and ...
LARRY WILMORE

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
LARRY WILMORE

The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. An...
LARRY WILMORE

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
LARRY WILMORE

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compa...
LARRY WILMORE

Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
LARRY WILMORE

I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in conten...
LARRY WILMORE

I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was th...
LARRY WILMORE

You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
LARRY WILMORE

I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I wa...
LARRY WILMORE

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
LARRY WILMORE

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
LARRY WILLIAMS

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all availabl...
LARRY WILLIAMS

The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get sc...
LARRY WILLIAMS

What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely ...
LARRY WILLIAMS

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
LARRY WILLIAMS

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
LARRY WILCOX

I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
LARRY WILCOX

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take a...
LARRY WILCOX

Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person...
LARRY WILCOX

I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more ...
LARRY WILCOX

I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
LARRY WILCOX

I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs'...
LARRY WILCOX

I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
LARRY WILCOX

I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
LARRY WILCOX

I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
LARRY WILCOX

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret m...
LARRY WILCOX

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
LARRY WILCOX

I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
LARRY WILCOX

A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're ...
LARRY WILCOX

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each o...
LARRY WILCOX

Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
LARRY WILCOX

Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while...
LARRY WILCOX

Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honest...
LARRY WILCOX

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in t...
LARRY WILCOX

I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity ...
LARRY WILCOX

I'm very candid.
LARRY WILCOX

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I woul...
LARRY WALL

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
LARRY WALL

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there...
LARRY WALL

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you&#...
LARRY WALL

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want...
LARRY WALL

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of th...
LARRY WALL

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifyi...
LARRY WALL

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
LARRY WALL

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
LARRY WALL

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
LARRY WALL

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more l...
LARRY WALL

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
LARRY WALL

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still wor...
LARRY WALL

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smar...
LARRY WALL

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to c...
LARRY WALL

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a ...
LARRY WALL

Programmers can be lazy.
LARRY WALL

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
LARRY WALL

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
LARRY WALL

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, ...
LARRY WALL

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. W...
LARRY WALL

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and the...
LARRY SPEAKES

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
LARRY SPEAKES

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
LARRY SPEAKES

We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you'...
LARRY SMITH

Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care...
LARRY SMITH

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work,...
LARRY SMITH

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It...
LARRY SMITH

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
LARRY RIVERS

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black...
LARRY RIVERS

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
LARRY RIVERS

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
LARRY RIVERS

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
LARRY POONS

A great painting is a great painting.
LARRY POONS

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at...
LARRY POONS

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
LARRY POONS

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
LARRY POONS

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, t...
LARRY POONS

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as...
LARRY PAGE

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
LARRY PAGE

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government ove...
LARRY PAGE

I can't really comment on rumors.
LARRY PAGE

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for o...
LARRY PAGE

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create...
LARRY PAGE

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their j...
LARRY PAGE

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know t...
LARRY PAGE

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always g...
LARRY PAGE

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beac...
LARRY PAGE

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't...
LARRY PAGE

We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow re...
LARRY PAGE

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you lo...
LARRY PAGE

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
LARRY PAGE

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to...
LARRY PAGE

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually mis...
LARRY PAGE

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b...
LARRY NORMAN

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf...
LARRY NORMAN

Art is more engaging that propaganda.
LARRY NORMAN

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ...
LARRY NORMAN

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re...
LARRY NORMAN

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson...
LARRY NORMAN

Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei...
LARRY NORMAN

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism....
LARRY NORMAN

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
LARRY NORMAN

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
LARRY NIVEN

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
LARRY NIVEN

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is nev...
LARRY NIVEN

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
LARRY NIVEN

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
LARRY NIVEN

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
LARRY NIVEN

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
LARRY NIVEN

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

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You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

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