Rich Eisen Quotes
I try to put myself in the position of the fan and the fan in my position. So to be somebody in the stands and be just like everyone else as opposed to having a press pass around my neck is pretty fun.
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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No, I try not to be a negative thinker.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don't really see myself as famous.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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I try to put myself in the position of the fan and the fan in my position. So to be somebody in the stands and be just like everyone else as opposed to having a press pass around my neck is pretty fun.
