Rob Sheffield Quotes

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Rob Sheffield

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DogHeroJobCoolShowing UpAwards

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Jesse Ventura

SportsViolenceWrestlingBallet

I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught me, corrected me, comforted me, encouraged me, and supported me in all things.

Meghan McCain

FatherTogetherBeginningMeEndHe

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

Robert Kiyosaki

MoneyToo MuchSideSystemInflation

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.

Robert Kurson

DailyAdventureThinkDoingPerson

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

Michael Bloomberg

MoneyFightLegacyBelieveBetter

There are always discussions about casting stars in lead roles in theater - especially when you're working with commercial producers - and it's not something I'm against, not at all. But any casting has to be right for the project.

John Tiffany

StarsYouProjectRightAlwaysLead

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.

Amity Shlaes

MusicSeemsMarketWantsPop-Rock

I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

Summer Sanders

FocusMeTeamComebackPlayTrials

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

Robert Crumb

HomeworkEnjoyDrawingLikeMuch

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

Mickey Rooney

FamilyFatherMotherBreakfastPoor

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

Judy Blume

CreativeThinkingProcessEnjoyUp

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Dick Cavett

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