Frank Deford Quotes
When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.'
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
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Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
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When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.
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When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.'
