Ted Koppel Quotes

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

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• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Success
  • Strange
  • Quick

• I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Innocent
  • Too Much
  • Too

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Mother

• When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Save
  • Immigrants

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • People
  • Always
  • Down

• I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

  

  Kaskade
  • Artist
  • Describe
  • Songwriter

• I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Idea

• My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Women
  • Bond

• It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Help
  • Pretty

• Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Humor

• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I just look at what's going on in the world.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Look
  • Just

• Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Suffer

• Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Language
  • Connection
  • Same

• Someone has to stand up for wimps.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Someone

• Some persons whom I had interviewed had instantaneous “spontaneous recoveries during prayer, including one case in which other cases of such spontaneous recoveries were not known, but their doctors classified the recoveries as anomalies and refused to admit that a miracle had occurred. One doctor also told me of a dramatic, medically inexplicable healing that occurred after prayer, in which case he was an eyewitness, but the surgeon was content to label it a “spontaneous healing.” This approach to classifying data to fit existing naturalistic paradigms inevitably obscures all potential evidence in conflict with the paradigm.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Prayer
  • Doctors
  • Admit

• I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Ideas

• By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Life
  • Way
  • Own

• Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Commandment

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming