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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Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what they did was they were willing to make mistakes. They were willing to make movies that were really bad. But they learned.
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I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
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I like to make a difference in both places, ... We are a stronger team if I am on the field. I would like to let the guys who are used to be the DH, be the DH.
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The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
