Mark Russell Quotes

I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

Mark Russell

• Sports
• Realizing
• Praying
• Sarcastic

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• I am supposed to set an example to young players.

  

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

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• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

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• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

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• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

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• Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

  

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• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  

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• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

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• No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.

  

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• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

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• I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

  

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• I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.

  

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• People always give me styling products and stuff.

  

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• So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

  

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• I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

  

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• In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

  

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• I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.

  

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• I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

  

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• You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'

  

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• I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

  

  Mark Russell
  • Sports
  • Realizing
  • Praying