Jon Gruden Quotes
In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I broke things to get attention.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
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Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.
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Xavier has been the ultimate role model. No matter how far away we are geographically, working together is something we feed off of.
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In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.
