Warren Moon Quotes
When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.
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I'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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When I was with Houston at the end of my career, Bob Gibson walked up to me one day when I was running in the outfield. He asked me why I didn't quit and said what a shame it was that I was ruining a great career and just trying to hang on. Years later, I saw Gibson trying to do the same thing.
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When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
