Events Quotes - Page 21

• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

  Tom Harpur

  Reality, Hands, Giving

  Tom Harpur (2005). “The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?”, p.17, Allen & Unwin

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• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Barbara Olson

  Presidential, Special, Attention

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• My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Challenges, Want

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• Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Funny, Sports, Thoughtful

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• I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

  Ali Landry

  Husband, Class, Bigs

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• If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

  Charles W. Pickering

  America, People, House

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• In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.

  Richard Perle

  Iran, Weapons, Problem

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.96, Random House

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• What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

  John Redwood

  Credit, Cash, Regulation

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• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  L.A. Reid

  World, Shapes, Culture

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• I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

  Paula Radcliffe

  New York, Years, Racing

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• Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

  Janet Suzman

  Father, Winning, Years

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• It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

  Janet Suzman

  Fighting, Ideas, Differences

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• No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Moving, Important, Degrees

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• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  Gary Larson

  Silly, Ideas, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm following a real event and real people.

  John Landis

  Real, People, Following

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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• When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.

  Roger Federer

  Thinking, Careers, Done

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• It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

  Peter Shaffer

  Girl, Horse, Sex

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• Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Party, Government

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• I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

  Dan Wheldon

  Thinking, Years, Waiting

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• The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

  Mike Weir

  Golf, Fans, Looks

  Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 03, 2011.

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• FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.

  Sonya Walger

  People, Sci Fi, Ripple Effect

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• What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happy, Choices, Joy

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Real, Teenager, Fighting

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

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