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• The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Book, Stressed

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.60, Vintage

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• For me, I try to look at a person's swagger and a little background on them if I already haven't liked them as a ballplayer. All you have to do in the way I am going at it is that I don't attack them like a typical commentator or a typical interview where I am trying to figure out what's your statistics or how you felt about last night? Those things. My things are more lifestyle oriented.

  Michael Bivins

  Night, Trying, Way

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

  Tony Blair

  Progress, Complainers, Humans

  "Tony Blair At Colby College: ‘Are We An Empire That’s Fading?’" by Hunter Stuart, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

  Rachel Cusk

  Novelists, Scientist, Social

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• The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Book, Greatness

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.217, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

  Murray Walker

  World, Honour, Huge

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Intelligence, Wish

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

  Joe Rogan

  Sports, Imagination

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• It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

  Tony Judt

  Israel, Doe

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• Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Littles, Opinion

  "Palin accepts nomination, slams Obama in speech". www.cnn.com. September 04, 2008.

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• for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Lasts, Last Words

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.56, Vintage

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• I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lite, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.

  Howard Zinn

  Jobs, Father, Hard Work

  "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times". Book by Howard Zinn, 1994.

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• The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Law, Shots

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• Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals

  Tony Gubba

  Football, Goal, Credit

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• What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too dangerous to allow disobedience. A leading principle of world affairs - though, of course, officials and commentators put it more politely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Mafia, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.

  Keith Preston

  Meaningful, Political, Democracy

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• Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Play, Villa

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• Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Soon Enough, Usual

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• Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.

  John Helm

  Football, Tests, Fatness

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• The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

  Russell Baker

  Book, Reading, Ambition

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• This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The actual Chemical Weapons Convention. Not the version that [Barack] Obama presented in his address to the nation and that media commentators repeat. What he said is that the convention bars the use of chemical weapons. He knows better. And so do the commentators. The Chemical Weapons Convention calls for banning the production, storage and use of chemical weapons, not just the use. So why omit production and storage?

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Bars, Use

  "Noam Chomsky | On Shutdown, Waning US Influence, Syrian Showdown". truthout.org. October 8, 2013.

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• Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bible, Book, Done

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

  Norman Finkelstein

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Interview with Selcuk Gultasli for "Today's Zaman" (Turkey), www.thehypertexts.com. January 19, 2009.

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