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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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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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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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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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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Execution is everything.
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Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's).
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.
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When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
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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.
