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• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  Gavyn Davies

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Today

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• There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Cheer, Party, Tea

  "Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bias". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.newsbusters.org. September 30, 2009.

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• Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

  Don Hewitt

  Thinking, Giving, News

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• I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

  Jay Roach

  Film, Great Experiences, Really Great

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.

  Todd Strauss-Schulson

  Long, Directors, Behind The Scenes

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 5, 2017.

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• It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

  Sophie Tucker

  Berlin, Broadcasting, Company

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• It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

  J. J. Abrams

  Crazy, Writing, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.

  Jon Winokur

  People, Pay, Trouble

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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Art, Reality, Self

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• Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

  John Donne

  Example, Scripture, Good Examples

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• I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them.

  David Slade

  Silly, Listening, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

  David Slade

  Directors, Want, Difficult

  Source: collider.com

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• I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

  Mark Dever

  Prayer, Important, Library

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• I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

  Ian Darke

  Thinking, Games, Young

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• I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Laughing, Political

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• I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certain mystery away from the interpretation that is very important for the audience to have. The audience should have their own interpretation.

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Thinking, Should Have, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

  John Legend

  Football, Games, Focus

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• Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Hate, People

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• Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.

  Emerson Spartz

  New York, Writing, Squares

  "8 Bloggers to Follow for Startup Inspiration and Advice". www.businessinsider.com. June 28, 2013.

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• It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

  Jodie Foster

  Moving, Intelligent, Emotional

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

  Steven Spielberg

  Running, Thinking, Listening

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, History, Oracles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.104, Penguin

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• I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

  Raul Castro

  Church, Speech, Way

  "Castro: Pope Francis so impressive I might return to church". www.washingtonpost.com. May 10, 2015.

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• Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  Anthony Doerr

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.

  Nancy Giles

  Sports, Art, Intelligent

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