Landon Donovan Quotes
I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.
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Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
