Events Quotes - Page 16

• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  Ed Rollins

  Political, Majority, Watches

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• To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

  Carl Lewis

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

  Werner Herzog

  Party, Red, Living My Life

  "Werner Herzog Talks Teaching Lock-Picking, Being A Living Legend And ‘Into The Abyss’". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

  Greg Norman

  Senior, Tired, Golf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Years, Weather, Voice

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

  James Spader

  Hands, People, Way

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• I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, World, Rise Of China

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

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• Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Past, Lines

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

  Mark Russell

  Baseball, Football, Games

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• People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

  David Frum

  Knowing, People, Important

  "David Frum Bashes Fox News Viewers: End Up 'Knowing A Lot Less About Important World Events'". CNN Interview, www.newsbusters.org. December 12, 2011.

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• My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  Sidney Altman

  Technology, Massachusetts, Unexpected

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• My memories of events and games are fragmented.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Memories, Games, Fragmented

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• I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Thinking, Nuts, Choices

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 30, 2006.

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• We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Rooms, Tvs

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• The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

  Edward H. Levi

  Frustration, Intellectual, Causes

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Government, Reform, Steps

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• As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Novelists, Lessons

  Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.

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• I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Thinking, Healthy

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• I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Fans, Down And, Able

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• I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

  David Blunkett

  Honest, Recollection

  Blunkett's resignation statement, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

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• I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!

  Kelly Brook

  Mean, Lovely, Promise

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

  Kurt Busch

  Race, People, Excited

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• People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

  Nellie Bly

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.69, Nellie Bly

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• As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

  Rob Bell

  Visits You, People, Funeral

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• I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Trends, Particular

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