Jim Gray Quotes

We have made tremendous progress. But there are still too many kids in our country who grow up feeling like they have to hold on to this secret about who they are because, if anyone finds out it, could cost them everything.

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• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Team
  • I Can

• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Great
  • Power
  • Science

• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Character
  • Book

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Stars
  • Knowing
  • Astronomy

• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Need

• I only know what I read in the papers.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Know
  • Read
  • Only

• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opinion
  • Matters
  • Insane

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • Competition

• My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

  

  Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • American
  • Style
  • Fire

• I always jump at the chance to mentor kids when it comes to music.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Chance

• When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

  

  Matt Besser
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Chicago

• The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

  Alexander Chase
  • Great

• We have made tremendous progress. But there are still too many kids in our country who grow up feeling like they have to hold on to this secret about who they are because, if anyone finds out it, could cost them everything.

  

  Jim Gray
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