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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I'm surprised by how many people have not seen 'Footloose.'
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I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going to put me at a fat-guy position, and I didn't want to do that. I am athletic.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I study once in a while. But my parents never pushed us into anything. Until we were 18, my mother would make us go with her to Kingdom Hall, and when we turned of age, she let us choose what we wanted to.
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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.
