Eric Dickerson Quotes
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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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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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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I'm hugely patriotic.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
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We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
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The first time I fought Mike Chandler, I was thinking about money way too much. I was thinking about the end of my contract. My focus was way off. I didn't believe in the people that were guiding me.
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If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
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That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
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I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.
