Jim Gray Quotes

I've learned what Tip O'Neill meant when he said all politics is local. We need more people in Congress who have this experience, who have this boots-on-the-ground experience.

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• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Help
  • Organization

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Experience
  • Fight

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • Job
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• I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Friends
  • Ending

• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Upset

• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Change
  • Japanese

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
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• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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  • Play
  • Blind

• If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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  • Good
  • Good People

• We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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  • Money
  • Government

• I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • Want
  • Pursue

• We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People

• Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I've learned to accept people's lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Practice

• To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton

• Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'

  

  Bob Newhart
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  • Believe
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• I've learned what Tip O'Neill meant when he said all politics is local. We need more people in Congress who have this experience, who have this boots-on-the-ground experience.

  

  Jim Gray
  • People
  • Experience