Frank Deford Quotes
The wonderful thing about delivering sports commentary on NPR was that because it has such a broad audience, I was able to reach people who otherwise had little or no interest in sport - especially as an important part of our human culture.Frank Deford
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
Tamera Mowry -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
Ira Sachs -
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino -
If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
Wallace Shawn
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
Zendaya -
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
Larry Wilmore -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
Maddie Ziegler -
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
Patrick Chan
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Daniel Clowes -
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor -
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Zaha Hadid -
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Pasquier Quesnel -
If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.
Patrick M. Byrne -
I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
Kat Graham
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Running a business anywhere isn't easy.
David Chang -
Golf is a very, very frustrating game.
Jason Day -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
Pankaj Mishra -
I made a living out of singing Mexican music.
Jenni Rivera -
The wonderful thing about delivering sports commentary on NPR was that because it has such a broad audience, I was able to reach people who otherwise had little or no interest in sport - especially as an important part of our human culture.
Frank Deford