Arena Quotes - Page 17

• I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.

  Hunter Hayes

  Stupid, Crazy, Goal

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• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  Wavy Gravy

  Running, Cities, Kansas City

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• Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

  Carly Fiorina

  Moving, California, Office

  "RCP Newsmaker Interview With Carly Fiorina". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 5, 2010.

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• There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.

  Drake

  Gratitude, Cheer, People

  "Drake's says his critics 'let me know that I'm relevant'" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2012.

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• No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Smart, Awards

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• The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.

  George Clooney

  Distraction, Ends, Enjoy

  "George Clooney's Big Surprises: Small Paychecks, Insomnia, Bouts of Loneliness". www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Husband, Shoes

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• I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hurt, Badass, Night

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• My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

  Jo Brand

  Men, Should Have, Trying

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• I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Fighting, Thinking, Museums

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• President Obama, don't you think you should follow in the footsteps of your predecessor? Remember, President George W. Bush? He stayed out of the political arena, and he let you, his successor, do your job.

  Sean Hannity

  Jobs, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

  J. C. Watts

  Sports, Organization, Political

  "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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• For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.

  Dwyane Wade

  Home, Games, Two

  "Dwyane Wade Told Us Why He Wears Glasses With No Lenses" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.

  Eliot Spitzer

  New York, Political, Proposal

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• I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

  Donny Osmond

  People, Political, Trying

  "Donny Osmond On Fellow Mormon Mitt Romney: Star Not Swayed By Candidate’s Religion" by Rob Shuter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Intelligent, Careers

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, Japan, Careers

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• When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Disappointment, Years

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• I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

  Joe Manchin

  Hunting, Rifles, Assault

  "Pro-gun Sen. Manchin: Time to act" by Kevin Robillard, www.politico.com. December 17, 2012.

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• My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Political, Culture, Involvement

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• War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  War, Done

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

  Lauryn Hill

  Smile, People, Needs

  "They Call Me Ms. Hill". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

  Jim Hightower

  Years, Political, Enough

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1995.

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• There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Artist, Tactics, Lines

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• During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today

  Catherine Camus

  Political, Unions, Today

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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