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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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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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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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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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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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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With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.
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Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.
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I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
