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"There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon."
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"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."

"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."

"Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air."

"I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met."

"There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain."

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

"I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter."

"When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful."
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"People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life."

"Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record."

"I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well."

"I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself."

"In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners."

"Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems."

"I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one."
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