John Madden Quotes
If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
Quotes to Explore
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.
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I've spent my whole life in real estate, whether it's in our hotels or looking at the competition, and it's my curse to walk into every room and not be drawn to the flaws and have the little imperfections drive me crazy - because they didn't need to happen.
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People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)
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I'm like Elaine Stritch everywhere.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts that most members don't ever want to know because it's a lot of work. But that's what really makes you successful.
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If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
