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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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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We’d been going home with television every night for years, but suddenly we had reason to respect it in the morning.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
