Bob Costas Quotes

Costas: But look who gets it next!Enberg: The Greatest! Oh my!

Bob Costas

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Rock

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting

• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • She
  • Mother
  • Singing

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Years

• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Like
  • Year
  • Leak

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Conditions
  • Hold

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • American
  • Religious
  • Struggle

• Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • World
  • Job
  • Lies

• I put Compton on the map.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Put
  • Map

• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

  

  E. B. White
  • Good
  • True
  • Friend

• Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Cold
  • Victory
  • Africa

• We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Work
  • Home
  • Environmental

• The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Understanding
  • Imagination

• The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Justice
  • Humility

• Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

  

  Jeff Goodell

• Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Lying

• One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Great
  • Wall

• Costas: But look who gets it next!Enberg: The Greatest! Oh my!

  

  Bob Costas