Blackie Sherrod Quotes

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

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• I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • God
  • Day

• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Spanish
  • Court
  • Jews

• There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Bad
  • Nothing
  • Going

• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
  • Dance
  • Training

• I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.

  

  Young Thug
  • Me
  • Rap
  • Girlfriend

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Beautiful
  • Cool
  • Selection

• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Tell
  • Outside

• All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Hand
  • Bible
  • Constitution

• I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • High
  • Like
  • Feel

• As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Women
  • Body

• It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Trade

• Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Movies
  • Try

• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Help
  • Evil
  • Understanding

• I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Think
  • Education

• You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Good
  • Country
  • Simple

• Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Important

• Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Business

• By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Art
  • Business
  • Job

• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

  

  Burt Ward
  • Children
  • Why
  • Business

• Difference between being Rich and Being Wealthy? Time...Nothing is more important than TIME... can't buy it back ever.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Time
  • Difference
  • Buy

• If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

  

  Blackie Sherrod
  • Business
  • Horse
  • Difference