Bill Simmons Quotes

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

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• I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Girl
  • Culture
  • Myself

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Everything
  • Clearly
  • Openly

• William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Difficult

• I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Work
  • Question
  • End

• I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Work
  • Change
  • Best

• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • White

• I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Work
  • High
  • Goals

• The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And we have made progress. We did pass the anti-discrimination law, Title 7, Title 9, equality in the workplace, equality in education and in sports and in all these other areas. But enforcement is very hard. Changing stereotypes is very hard.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Sports
  • Progress
  • Feminist

• This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • Christian

• I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Sympathy
  • Gang

• I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Sports