S.W. Collins Quotes

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.

I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.

Music is my life and my passion.

I love my music and recording people.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.

I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.