Quotes with game-shows

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  • Bobby Davro Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Ivern Ball Ever notice that people never say 'It's only a game' when they're winning?
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bonnie Somerville Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
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  • Alan Cohen Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George Eliot Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charles Buxton Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Camille Paglia Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Hull First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bill Simmons Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Barack Obama Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
    Source: Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Paul Brown Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
    Paul Brown
    American football coach and executive (1908 - )
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  • Bill Shankly Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carl Sagan For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
    Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Salman Rushdie Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Norman Cousins Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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