Entertaining Quotes - Page 9

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Girlfriend

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• We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.

  Craig Newmark

  Persistence, Mba, Luck

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Meaningful, Book, Issues

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• Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

  Mark Burnett

  Kings, Screens, Statements

  "Mark Burnett, Hearst Team Up for Joint Venture" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I follow Coach Spurrier because he seems to have an entertaining way of communicating.

  Les Miles

  Way, Communicate, Coaches

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Book, Letters, May

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• Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.

  Ann Romney

  Children, Home, School

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• I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

  Budd Schulberg

  Listening, Novelists, Used

  "Budd Schulberg, 'On the Waterfront' Writer, Dies at 95" by Tim Weiner, www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I raced through
  Killer Keepsakes and really loved it smart and interesting and entertaining.

  Linda Fairstein

  Smart, Interesting, Killers

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• My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

  Lisi Harrison

  Book, Goal, Way

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• I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

  Bipasha Basu

  Adjectives, Proud, Way

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• Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

  Dan Poynter

  Thought Provoking, Advice, Marketing

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• I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Character, Successful

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with plenty of humanity. The toughness of Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels blended with the wry humor and scope of Ross Thomas. Wholly original, endlessly entertaining. The books of A. E. Maxwell are a forgotten treasure.

  Tim Maleeny

  Memories, Book, Eye

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• If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Olympics, Sponsorship

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• It's about having personality...it's not about being the bad guy, it's about entertaining people.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, People, Personality

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• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

  Damien Fahey

  Funny, Real, Technology

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2012

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• Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Solitude, Made, Capacity

  Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

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• Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

  Kevin Brownlow

  Art, Attitude, Silent

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• A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sheep, Church, Shepherds

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

  Alma Alexander

  Stories, Know How, Knows

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