John Madden Quotes
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
Quotes to Explore
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.
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Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
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I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
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Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
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I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
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Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
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«You are going to raise VAT on this child who came here! The marshmallows! You are going to raise VAT on the marshmallows!'
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I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.
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Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.
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You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.
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I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.
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I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
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Nipples aren't killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There's so much violence in the world. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples.
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Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
