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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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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Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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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.
