John Sweeney Quotes
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really hard to tell a story while also making people laugh. It's like trying to do two jobs at once.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.
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People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
