Jim Irsay Quotes
Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's motivating.
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Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.
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Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.
