Tom Snyder Quotes
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I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.
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Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.
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We might say that two thousand years ago, Jesus inserted into the human imagination a radical new vision of God—nondominating, nonviolent, supreme in service, and self-giving. That vision was so radically new and different that we have predictably spent our first two thousand years trying to reconcile it with the old visions of God that it challenged. Maybe only now, as we acknowledge Christianity to be, in light of our history, what the novelist Walker Percy called a “failed religion,” are we becoming ready to let Jesus’s radical new vision replace the old vision instead of being accommodated within it. Could some sectors of Christian faith finally be ready to worship and follow the God that Jesus was trying to show them?
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If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?
