Frank Deford Quotes

I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.

Frank Deford

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Thought

• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Experience
  • Body
  • Creation

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Blue

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Wonder
  • Start
  • Breakfast

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.

  

  Daymond John
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Technology

• I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

  

  Elizabeth Gillies
  • Up
  • Age
  • Soul

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reality
  • Faith
  • Egotism

• I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • Money
  • Nature