Arena Quotes - Page 10

• Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Cameras, Littles

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• I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do-and boring as the day is long.

  Terri Irwin

  Passion, Long, People

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Part 4: Adrenaline Junkie?". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Knives, Forever, Kevlar

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• Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

  Anita Shreve

  Betrayal, Character, Love Is

  "Book World Live: Novelist Anita Shreve, author of 'Testimony'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2008.

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• You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

  T. D. Jakes

  Intimate Relationships, Circles, People

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• The bus ride to the arena... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while imagining myself on the ice. Visualization and imagery are very important in figure skating, or any sport for that matter. This is where you see yourself in your mind performing in front of an audience and judges. I also imagine how I am going to feel during the performance. During the bus ride, I pictured myself skating a perfect program.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Perfect

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• I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.

  Timothy Dalton

  Talking, Violence, Kind

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• A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

  Joe Hyams

  Anxiety, Cosmos, Dojo

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.4, Bantam

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• The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views shall be voiced in the hands of each of us, in the hope that the use of such freedom will ultimately produce a more capable citizenry and more perfect polity and in the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political systems rests.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Government, Views, Expression

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• People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

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• Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Political, Democracy

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.33, Seven Stories Press

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• The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

  Rita Dove

  Doors, Soul, Library

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• I came from the stage so it was a different kind of acting, or a different arena of acting, and I just loved to do it as a kid. It's really gratifying to get to create these different characters and to get to create different voices and to get to wear different clothes.

  Freddy Rodriguez

  Love, Character, Kids

  "Grindhouse's Action Hero Freddy Rodriguez Interviewed". Interview with Josh Green, www.firstshowing.net. March 30, 2007.

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• I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Writing, Successful, Intelligent

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• Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.

  Bill Bright

  Country, Father, Government

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• What you should want from life is an arena big enough to express your talents and gifts.

  Pleasant Rowland

  Inspirational, Want, Talent

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• Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

  Charlie Brooker

  Destiny, Numbers, Letters

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.220, Faber & Faber

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• Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.

  Robert Byrd

  Mistake, Ku Klux Klan, Political

  "Dems Need to Houseclean" by Deroy Murdock, www.nationalreview.com. January 6, 2003.

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• ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Hopeless, Quarrels

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• There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.

  Crixus

  Standing, Greater Things, Greater

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• ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pits, Records, Politics

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.20, See Sharp Press

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• I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Giving, Political, Hammers

  "Commencement address, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts". June 8, 1958.

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• How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

  Nikki Sixx

  Guy, Lucky, Band

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

  Jenny Eclair

  Stuff, Comedy, I Can

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• Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Government, Century, Transportation

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