Ed Gordon Quotes
I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it - that last stage - you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them - to see if it’ll affect someone else.
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I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.
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I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.
