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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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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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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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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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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I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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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.
