Bryant Gumbel Quotes
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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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.
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I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.
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I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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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.
