Sid Waddell Quotes
I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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I campaigned for Barack Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.
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Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
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Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.
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I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
