John Madden Quotes
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
Quotes to Explore
-
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
-
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
-
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
-
The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
-
I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
-
Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
-
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
-
Nature hates calculators.
-
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
-
People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
-
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
-
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.
-
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
-
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
-
All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?
-
Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.
-
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.
-
Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.
-
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
