Michael Ovitz Quotes

Football is the No. 1 sport in America.

Michael Ovitz

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• For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• I'm not a big sports fan.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Sports
  • Fan
  • Big

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • God
  • America
  • Doubt

• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The business of America is business.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Business
  • America

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Football

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Always

• Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • America
  • Help
  • United States

• There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • American
  • America

• I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Sports

• I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Movies

• When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Brand

• You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America

• Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled antisemite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • America
  • True

• I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes.

  

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.

  

  Danny McBride
  • Mind
  • Amazing
  • Awesome

• Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Done
  • House
  • Jesus

• I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Thought
  • Sexy
  • Aggressive

• Football is the No. 1 sport in America.

  

  Michael Ovitz
  • America
  • Football
  • Sports