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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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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

  Tony Judt

  Israel, Doe

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

  Rachel Cusk

  Novelists, Scientist, Social

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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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• What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too dangerous to allow disobedience. A leading principle of world affairs - though, of course, officials and commentators put it more politely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Mafia, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.

  Keith Preston

  Meaningful, Political, Democracy

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• Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Play, Villa

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• Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Soon Enough, Usual

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• Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.

  John Helm

  Football, Tests, Fatness

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• That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

  Murdo MacLeod

  Football, Perfect, Yards

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• I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

  Norman Finkelstein

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Interview with Selcuk Gultasli for "Today's Zaman" (Turkey), www.thehypertexts.com. January 19, 2009.

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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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• 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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• Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

  Mike Ingham

  Soccer, Football, Wimbledon

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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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• The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

  Russell Baker

  Book, Reading, Ambition

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