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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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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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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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I feel more confident and like I have more to say. I feel like I'm working more than ever, not just from fantasy, but actual experience. I'm an adult now - I actually have experience.
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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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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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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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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
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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.
