Joe Theismann Quotes
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.
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They are a very good football team over there. They are No. 1 in many categories and we were trying everything we could.
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Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
