Keith Pelley Quotes

Nothing is ever 100 per cent. Plays happen in a split second. (Referees) have to make that decision in a nanosecond. Now that you have a chance to take a look at it again, I think it enhances the integrity of the game.

Keith Pelley

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Challenge

• Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • Free
  • Speech

• In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

  

  Edmund White
  • God
  • Story
  • Feathers

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Problem
  • Africa
  • Exceptions

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Speech
  • Roots
  • Grass

• If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Children
  • Duty

• You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rich
  • River
  • Pure

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everybody
  • Got
  • Score

• I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Me
  • Serious

• I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Fan

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• I have asked James Shabazz, I've asked other people who are members of the OAAU, Herman Ferguson and others, what led to that disastrous decision [that the guards didn't carry weapons]? James Shabazz said to me with a shrug, you just didn't know Malcolm. Malcolm was adamant, and that whatever Malcolm wanted, that's what we just did.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Decision
  • Members

• I didn't really get the chance to talk to girls. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren't interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Chance

• The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.

  

  Brander Matthews
  • Art
  • House
  • Chance

• My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Air
  • Bases
  • Hometown

• Nothing is ever 100 per cent. Plays happen in a split second. (Referees) have to make that decision in a nanosecond. Now that you have a chance to take a look at it again, I think it enhances the integrity of the game.

  

  Keith Pelley
  • Decision
  • Chance
  • Plays