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

• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Live
  • America
  • Happy

• A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Laughing

• I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Bad
  • Angry
  • Frustrated

• And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Work

• 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