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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I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.
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That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.
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By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
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I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
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The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
