Alan Hansen Quotes
Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
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The United States will always be a global leader, and we need to actively engage the international community to make sure all citizens of the world live freely and equally under their country's rule of law. We cannot, however, afford to fight other nations' wars interminably or stabilize their regions.
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In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.
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Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
