Rich Eisen Quotes
In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
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She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
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I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.
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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
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Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
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My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
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In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.
