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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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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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
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I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
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The children of this country under this Bush budget who rely on childcare will be Bush-whacked.
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Everything today is such a massive visual show. It's very rare to get a film where the characters are raw and real - and you can take people back to where they are watching live cinema. With character-driven action. Not visual-driven action.
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
