Dick Pound Quotes

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

Dick Pound

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Humanity

• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Election
  • Advance
  • Auction

• I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life

• We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Country
  • Song

• When I first signed on to play Tommen, I started speculating about when he was going to die. I sort of knew he wouldn't be the last one on the throne, but Tommen doesn't really deserve to have his throat slit or his stomach jabbed. In a way, Tommen died the way he was - it was a peaceful death.

  

  Dean-Charles Chapman
  • Death
  • Die

• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Movie
  • House

• My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Opinion
  • Bridge

• Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Moments

• Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

  

  Dick Pound
  • Opportunity
  • Moments
  • Occasions