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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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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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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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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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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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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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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It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
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All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.
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If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them - and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.
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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.
