Bill Simmons Quotes
I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I have a great office.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.
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It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
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I guess this is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.
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I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.
