Bryant Gumbel Quotes
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
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I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.
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I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.
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I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.
