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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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'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I hear a lot from women in Africa. And not just from dark-skinned women but from all women struggling because of insecurity. They thank me and tell me that I inspire them. And that makes me feel really, really proud.
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People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
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I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.
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I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.
