Dick Vitale Quotes

That just goes with the territory whenever you're a superstar and play for a great team. That's a compliment. That means you've made it.

Dick Vitale

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• I get bored easily.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Bored
  • Get
  • Easily

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • War
  • Path

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• Christians are being systematically exterminated.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Being
  • Christians

• You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

  

  James F. Amos
  • World
  • Wonder

• This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Great
  • Long
  • Fun

• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movies

• Ah, you come to see the others but rarely to see me.

  

  Alfred Jodl

• That just goes with the territory whenever you're a superstar and play for a great team. That's a compliment. That means you've made it.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Great
  • Team
  • Compliment