Jon Gruden Quotes

I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.

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• The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Things
  • Idea
  • Causes

• I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Dream
  • New
  • New York

• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Doing

• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Year
  • Poker

• Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Up
  • Spring

• I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

  

  J. F. Powers
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Progress
  • Personality
  • Sacrifice

• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Quality
  • Research
  • Impact

• Social Security is fundamentally strong.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Strong
  • Security
  • Social

• I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Day
  • Always
  • Perform

• Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Actors
  • Part
  • Directors

• People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Media
  • Looking

• If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Strong

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art
  • Character

• On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Wisdom
  • Advice

• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

  

  Edward Young

• When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Bands

• As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Think
  • House
  • Kid

• There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

  

  Mark Pellegrino
  • May
  • Feeling

• The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.

  

  Arthur Cleveland Bent
  • Notes
  • Lovemaking
  • Bluebird

• I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.

  

  Jon Gruden