Frank Deford Quotes
Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So, what is football doing to us as a people? How do we explain an America that alone in the world so loves this savage sport?Frank Deford
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Lance Burton -
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner -
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Ira Glass -
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld -
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
Barbara Kruger
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Owen Hart -
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Talcott Parsons -
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile Selassie
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph -
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith -
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
Iris DeMent -
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris -
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar Fiedler -
As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
Laura Carmichael
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
Daniel Dennett -
My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.
Yaacov Agam -
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel -
I love doing theater. It's what I grew up in and is my roots. I get a huge fulfillment from it. But if my path is to go someplace else, hey, I'm there.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
That Cornell show that - that people talk about, I can't remember that specifically. It didn't stand out for me on that tour. The whole tour was like that for me.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So, what is football doing to us as a people? How do we explain an America that alone in the world so loves this savage sport?
Frank Deford