Bryant Gumbel Quotes
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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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
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Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.
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My dad had this old truck that he used to take on back roads and showed me how to drive when I was nine or ten.
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There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
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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?
