Fran Tarkenton Quotes
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.Fran Tarkenton
Quotes to Explore
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow -
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Patricia Riggen -
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
Tadanobu Asano -
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
Ira Glass -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
Manny Montana -
It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
Laura Innes -
If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
Dallas Roberts
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant -
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
Dan Aykroyd -
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
Rachel Stevens -
I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
Dale Earnhardt -
I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
Dan Abrams -
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
Lance Loud
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I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
Rahul Dravid -
It is clear to me, as I consider the work laid out in the staff report, that many E-Rate program weaknesses must be addressed legislatively to avoid future waste and misuse.
Ed Whitfield -
We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.
Dean Wareham -
I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.
Joaquin Phoenix -
It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
Angela Ahrendts -
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
Fran Tarkenton