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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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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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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I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
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I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when every thing is taken away from you and you have nothing.
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As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.
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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.
