Bill Parcells Quotes

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

Bill Parcells

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• Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Why
  • Want
  • Food

• I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Story

• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • American
  • Debate

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Government
  • Opportunities

• I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Opposed
  • NAFTA

• If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Book
  • Him
  • Phone

• The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Why
  • Question
  • Feel

• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  

  Om Puri
  • Films
  • Lot
  • Copies

• Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Different
  • Song
  • Moments

• I've been making deals all my life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life

• It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Country
  • Business

• I have a gay cousin who came out to my parents before he came out to his own. So I benefited from having a very open, supportive family, and I want to pass that on.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Gay

• In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

  

  Corey Clark
  • People
  • Red

• What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Age
  • Sad

• You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • World
  • Job
  • Passion

• I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Night
  • Quality

• Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Game
  • Teaching
  • Coaching

• These guys are teachers, and you can see it watching any of their practices, much less their games. You can watch (the ESPN program) 'Knight School' and see that he still loves to be in a coaching situation. I know he gets a little frustrated with the losses sometimes, but he's still out there doing it.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • School
  • Games
  • Coaching

• When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Coaching