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?
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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.
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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.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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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.
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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.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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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.
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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.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.
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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
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A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.
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Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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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?
