Bryant Gumbel Quotes
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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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
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People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
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You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.
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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.
