Host Quotes - Page 3

• I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

  Jerry Springer

  Crazy, Play, Roles

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2008.

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• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.

  Craig Ferguson

  School, Years, Law

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• The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Brutality, Rewards

  "Letter to My Son" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. July 4, 2015.

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• Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doors, Games, Car

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• If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Accountability, Gone

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• If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

  Andy Cohen

  Struggle, Gay, Night

  "Bravo's Andy Cohen shares his story in the Castro". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  Ted Allen

  Party, Important, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I look up to Jimmy Fallon. He hosts talk shows as a fan himself, and that's how I do it. When the celebrities come in, I'm excited that they're there. It's not just like a formal, 'Hey, how are ya?' It's like, 'Dude, what the hell! So happy to see you!' That's what Jimmy Fallon does every time.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Fans, Doe, Looks

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• I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Loyalty, Children, Light

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• Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Home, Grace

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• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Business, Goal, Mediocrity

  "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.

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• Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

  Joe Bastianich

  Math, Thinking, People

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• The unique aspect of today's monetary inflation is that it is not limited to one country, but a host of countries are all inflating together. As a result of the monetary inflation (when all of the newly created money begins to leave the banks and enter the system), the price inflation will be worldwide.

  Peter DeGraaf

  Country, Unique, Together

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• Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

  Henry Rollins

  Comedian, Buffets, Helping

  "I’m Lovin’ It" by Henry Rollins, www.vanityfair.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Political, Detroit, Parasites

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• I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.

  Bow Wow

  Black, Want, Produce

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• Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you're a stand-up comedian so they're always looking for somebody funny to host an event.

  Chelsea Handler

  Tv Shows, People, Comedian

  "Chelsea Handler: Gay rights is no joke". Interview with Jessica Abramson, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2011.

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• If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Animal, Practice

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• Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There’s a great book inside, with recipes, pie history, and plenty of inspiration for gathering your friends together to see who can make the best pie. Plus, ribbons! And scorecards! This would be a great party.

  Shauna James Ahern

  Fun, Party, Book

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• In the long run all love is paid by love,
  Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
  The great eternal Government above
  Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
  Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
  So beautiful a thing was never lost
  In the long run.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Beautiful, Running

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1401, Delphi Classics

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• My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

  William S. Burroughs

  Past, Viruses, Half

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Adding Machine”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

  Jeb Bush

  Government, Suffering, Parasites

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• An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

  Paul Davies

  Competition, Would Be, Earth

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• From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.

  Regina Brett

  Prayer, Real, Believe

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