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Quotes by Entertainer
"Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska."
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"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
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"I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far."
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
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"In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history."
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"We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season."
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"I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me."
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"I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth."
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"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."
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"I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'"
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"Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery."
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"Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity."
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"If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day."
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"As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can."
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"One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar."
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"Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval."
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"If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?"
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"I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it."
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"When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27."
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"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
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"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"
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"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
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"You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds.""
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"I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had."
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"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."
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"You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing."
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"I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch."
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"I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive."
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"Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is."
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"I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air."
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"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
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"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
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"Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed."
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"I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed."
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"If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am."
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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."
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"The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions."
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"If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!"
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"My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast."
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"The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers."
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"We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him."
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