Bob McKenzie Quotes

If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

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• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  

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• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

  

  Olivia Munn
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• My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

  

  Gabby Douglas
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• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
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• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Sometimes
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• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.

  

  Adam Green
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• I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

  

  Adam Pally
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• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
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• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Brain
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• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

  

  Kate Moss
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• Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.

  

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• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • School
  • High

• If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

  

  Bob McKenzie
  • Change
  • Commissioner
  • Sport media