Eddie Mair Quotes

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

Eddie Mair

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• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Me

• Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Young

• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Riding

• Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Best

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Love
  • Warm

• Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • People
  • Live
  • High

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.

  

  Billy Graham
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Sorry

• Alors, c’est ça l’enfer. Je n'aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril... ah! Quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril, l'enfer, c'est les autres.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

  

  James Balog
  • Work
  • May
  • Home

• I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Time
  • Long

• I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Time
  • School
  • College

• I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • World
  • Star

• The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Art
  • Powerful

• It's funny how people will think I'm being sarcastic a lot and joking. So I'll say, "I like your dress," and they'll go "(bleep) you!" Or I say something serious and they go, "Oh, yeah, ha-ha." They're strangers. They're people who know me from comedy, but luckily I am on pretty much all the time!

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• The capital punishment controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Judge

• Earlier in my career, I was much more super-sharey. There were moments when I wanted to process things that were happening to me more privately, and I didn't have the space to do it, because once you let people in, they're in, and you don't get to say, 'Oh, I want this for myself.'

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Career
  • Space

• Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

  

  Kanye West
  • Professional
  • Garden
  • Athlete

• Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

  

  Eddie Mair
  • Comedy
  • Judge
  • Moustache