Host Quotes - Page 19

• Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Serious Illness, Long, Bother

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• Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

  Rob Sheffield

  Dog, Jobs, Hero

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• I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.

  Andrew Weil

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Feet, Two

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• I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

  Jon Stewart

  Awards, Charm, Third Time

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

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• When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

  Barbra Streisand

  Tvs, Stranger, Found

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• Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Greek, Rumor

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• I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

  Yani Tseng

  Giving, One Day, Events

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• I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!

  Diego Della Valle

  Father, Employers, Remembered

  Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Sports, Years, Two

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• In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Night, Years

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.185, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.

  David Copperfield

  Wall, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Grace, India, Cinema

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• An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

  James Lovelock

  Clever, Viruses

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• Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

  John Lydon

  Years, Cynical, Television

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• Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

  Michael E. Mann

  Environmental, Climate, Planets

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.

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• God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

  Walter Martin

  Prayer, Exercise, Doe

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• I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Thinking, Guy

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• I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

  Rick Mercer

  People, Risk, Most Amazing

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.

  Liza Minnelli

  World, Audience, Ifs

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• There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

  Dylan Moran

  Voice, Literature, Singers

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• I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Faces, Saws

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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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• Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

  Guru Nanak

  Eye, Form, Thousand

  "Encyclopaedia of Sikhism". Book by Harbans Singh, 1992.

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• I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Rights, Community

  "Obama in 2004: 'I Don't Think Marriage Is a Civil Right'" by Daniel Halper, www.weeklystandard.com. May 8, 2012.

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