Bryant Gumbel Quotes
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I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.
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There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.
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We keep looking for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help in putting race relations back on the front burner after they’ve been subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years.
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I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.
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Scott, as you and I both know, a popular move these days is to make a titillating charge and then have the media create the frenzy. Given Kenneth Starr’s track record, should we suspect that he’s trying to do with innuendo that which he has been unable to do with evidence?
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Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
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It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.
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In the first two years this is a man Clinton who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
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You'll never see me working five days a week again.
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We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
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If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.
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I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.
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White people love Wayne Brady, because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.
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Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
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If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court’s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn’t I vent my anger?
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We've got an awful lot to talk about this week, including the sexual harassment suit against the President. Of course, in that one, it’s a little tough to figure out who’s really being harassed.
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I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.
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My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
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This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?