Alex Spanos Quotes
My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I went to a pretty small school from the beginning all the way up, so I knew everyone, everyone knew me.
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I need to be on the same page as the director.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.
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Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing.
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We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.
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All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
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We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.
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At the end of the day, cycling is a business, so we have to be able to offer something to a sponsor, and without exposure, that's going to be difficult, but that's where the UCI perhaps has to be a little bit stronger.
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My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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It's not the most exciting style of playing by any means, but it's effective. One of the things that you have to do is guard them. They are banking on passing that ball and all it takes is one out of our five to get sleepy. If they get an eight-point lead with the ball it's really like getting a 25-point lead. It's going to be a very different game for us. Our kids are going to be focused and prepared.
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My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.
