Bob Costas Quotes
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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Well, if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn't play like Wynton.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
