Dick Vitale Quotes
An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
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And my little sister died when she was 16.
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God shall be all in all.
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An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.
