Commentators Quotes - Page 2

• Be a fountain, not a drain.

  Rex Hudler

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

  Jim Rogers

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  Jim Rogers (2013). “Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets”, p.58, Crown Business

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• Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

  Jon Champion

  Football, Troops, Conductor

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• I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

  Glenn Beck

  Views, Libertarian, Tables

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• The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."

  Linda McQuaig

  Cutting, Assessment, Media

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• The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby.

  Tony Gubba

  Football, Baby, Balls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, the stakes are greater than even that political prize. If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere. After all, nobody's perfect.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Country, Mean, Sacrifice

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• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Intelligence, Wish

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

  Tony Blair

  Progress, Complainers, Humans

  "Tony Blair At Colby College: ‘Are We An Empire That’s Fading?’" by Hunter Stuart, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

  David Berlinski

  Religious, Ignorance, Dark

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books

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• I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

  Rachel Cusk

  Novelists, Scientist, Social

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• The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Law, Shots

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• Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals

  Tony Gubba

  Football, Goal, Credit

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• I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lite, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.

  Howard Zinn

  Jobs, Father, Hard Work

  "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times". Book by Howard Zinn, 1994.

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• Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bible, Book, Done

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Lasts, Last Words

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.56, Vintage

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• He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Vision, Monsters, Saws

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

  Stephen Fry

  Hero, Air, Valhalla

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• It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

  Murray Walker

  World, Honour, Huge

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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• I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

  Joe Rogan

  Sports, Imagination

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• Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Littles, Opinion

  "Palin accepts nomination, slams Obama in speech". www.cnn.com. September 04, 2008.

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• My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

  Thomas Merton

  Gratitude, Writing, Simple

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