Pete Rozelle Quotes

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

Pete Rozelle

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• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Game

• In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Beginning
  • Silence
  • Sound

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Credit

• I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Live
  • Interesting

• I read everything and anything. I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • Everything

• It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Men
  • Myself
  • Limit

• Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Good
  • Man
  • Sports

• I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Think
  • Responsibility
  • Fans

• We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hit
  • Wonders
  • Few

• I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Movie
  • Fire
  • Alive

• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Democracy

• We were given drinks, and drank them, and talked while we drank them. But talked, here, is a euphemism: we had that conversation about how you make a Martini. The people in Hell, Dr. Rosenbaum had told me once, say nothing but What? Americans in Hell tell each other how to make Martinis.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People

• Say, if I hadn't been sick last summer, I'd have broken hell out of that home run record! Besides, the President gets a four-year contract. I'm only asking for three.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Broken
  • Summer

• I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Doing

• There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

  

  Brie Larson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • People
  • She
  • Passion

• To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Home
  • Romantic

• Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

  

  Pete Rozelle