Jim Gray Quotes
America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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A lot of times, people ask us about being a country band, and we say, 'Well, we're not really a country band.' And we're not knocking country, because we like it, but we don't want to be limited.
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America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.
