Al Michaels Quotes
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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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. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
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I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
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People are friendlier in New York than London.
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My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.
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I've got a long-term plan.
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As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.
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I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.
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The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
