Bryant Gumbel Quotes
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller -
I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
Mahershala Ali -
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
Malcolm D. Lee -
Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
Wayne Dyer -
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani -
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson -
I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
Sam Wyly -
Women drive box office.
Octavia Spencer -
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger -
There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
D. B. Weiss -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
Victoria Osteen -
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson -
We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
Walid Jumblatt -
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg -
Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
Adam Mansbach -
As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
Viggo Mortensen
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In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
Don Ameche -
I think the goal is always to go deeper within myself, and accept myself on deeper levels and to know myself on deeper levels. Whether or not I look for roles that are going to do that for me, I certainly look for the ways in which the roles I get can do that for me.
Zachary Quinto -
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
Fiona Shaw -
Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?
Yehudi Menuhin -
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.
Mark Steyn -
There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.
Bryant Gumbel