Clint Hill Quotes
Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.
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We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
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Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
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Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.
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That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
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Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.
