John Motson (John Walker Motson) Quotes
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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My only experience with American things is through movies.
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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... Love is heaven and claims its own.
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We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.
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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.
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I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
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Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
