Rich Eisen Quotes
Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
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In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political.
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When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
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In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature.
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When you write for someone else, you're being an actor, the feeling is the feeling of another.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.
