Shooter Quotes - Page 2

• I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am.

  Kobe Bryant

  Balls, Hog

  "Kobe Bryant feeling fine in Philly". Interview with Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

  John Romero

  Design, Different, Firsts

  "The future of games is freedom". Interview with Alexander Gambotto-Burke, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2006.

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• Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

  Morgan Freeman

  Names, Oregon, Eric

  "Morgan Freeman Article Provides Valid View of the Sandy Hook Shootings and Our Media" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  Jack Nicholson

  Golf, Years, Lasts

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• How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

  Reif Larsen

  Laughter, Buttons, Snapshots

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

  Jason Kidd

  Winning, Games, Play

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• My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

  Kevin Smith

  Inspirational, Father, Real

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• They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.

  Anthony Bourdain

  College, Thinking, Russia

  "A Cook's Tour". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2001.

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• You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Light, Sprinkles

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.110, Pearson Education

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• Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer.

  Bill Maher

  Prayer, Real, School

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• When the new gun booklet was recently mailed to all licensed shooters, 20% were returned as 'not known at this address.

  Tony Lauer

  Gun, Addresses, Known

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• Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Males, Western Culture

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not “one of us”? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.

  Ari Ne'eman

  Religious, Simple, White

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• I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.

  Joe Dumars

  Inspirational, Basketball, Thinking

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  College, Games, Circles

  "The Leaping Legends of Basketball" by Scott Ostler, The Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1989.

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• You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.

  William Monahan

  People, Creative, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

  Lee Iacocca

  Successful, Leader, Pants

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• He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.

  John S. Mosby

  Song, Prayer, War

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• All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

  Herman Melville

  Beautiful, Lying, Reality

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.214, 谷月社

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• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Moving, Fall

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