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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Sure, I've done enough partying for 10 guys.
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
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If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.
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It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.
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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.
