Keith Olbermann Quotes

This is a second chance for me, ... There's not much more you can ask for than that.

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• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Live
  • Lost

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Professional

• My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Like
  • Dark
  • Break

• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• ...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Long
  • May
  • Truth

• One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

  

  Keith Gessen
  • Years
  • Sound
  • Might

• Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Children
  • Future
  • Interest

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• This is a second chance for me, ... There's not much more you can ask for than that.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Chance