Host Quotes - Page 21

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  Lara Spencer

  Work Out, Television, Combination

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• David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

  George Lopez

  Night, Hands, Down And

  "George Lopez for mayor?". "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. July 27, 2011.

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• You want to know who owns America? A few at the top. And they've got one thing on their mind. No change. Look at Obama, all that hope and promise. No change. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiser—$35,800 a ticket—and you know who the host was? Goldman friggin' Sachs.

  Buddy Roemer

  Wall, America, Promise

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• I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes.  Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'

  Noga Alon

  Science, Years, Radio

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• No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.

  James E. Talmage

  Men, Doors, Loner

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• It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

  Anish Kapoor

  Blessing, Boredom, Trying

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• The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Fog, Elephants

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “Dodger”, p.132, Random House

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• Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

  Mark Van Doren

  Kings, Ideas, May

  Mark Van Doren (1963). “Joy of being serious: address presented at the New Year convocation for students, University of Illinois”

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• A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

  Horace

  Genius, Calamity

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book II, satire viii, lines 73 - 74, c. 35 BC, 30 BC.

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• HARK how all the Welkin rings
  "Glory to the Kings of Kings,
  "Peace on Earth, and Mercy mild,
  "GOD and Sinners reconcil'd!
  Joyful all ye Nations rise,
  Join the Triumph of the Skies,
  Universal Nature say
  "CHRIST the LORD is born to Day!

  Charles Wesley

  Christmas, Kings, Angel

  Charles Wesley (1889). “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”

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• I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

  Herbert Croly

  Optimism, Literature, Mixtures

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious, be prudent, be bland, never push anybody, never say what you really think, offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days, a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of 'trash television,' and no doubt they are right, and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

  Roger Ebert

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

  Steven Erikson

  Mean, Fighting, Soldier

  Steven Erikson (2009). “The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6”, p.533, Random House

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• Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Spiritual, Teacher, Regret

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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• A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Feelings, Resentment, Guilty

  W F. Lyons, Thomas Francis Meagher (1871). “Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings”, p.13

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• Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.

  Trevor Brooking

  Wells, Euro, Nations

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  Owen Hart

  Art, Giving, Guy

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• We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

  Alain de Botton

  Letting Go, Struggle, Secular Society

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Paris Hilton is one of the hosts for Nicole Richie’s baby shower, and they’re serving sushi. Awesome, Paris—sushi, the one thing pregnant women are forbidden to eat. Thanks for the mercury.

  Chelsea Handler

  Baby, Paris, Mercury

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• I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

  Robert Stack

  Friday, Cameras, Week

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• We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Europe, People

  "Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939".

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• With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.

  John Fogerty

  Country, War, Patriotic

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