Chick Hearn Quotes
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
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In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
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Genius is never understood in its own time.
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I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
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No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.
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Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.
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You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.
