Mary Pilon Quotes

One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.

Mary Pilon

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A talented executive whose interests are aligned with the firm's and is confident in her role will always recruit stars who exceed herself in various ways, but one who is worried about her value to the firm will not.

Joe Lonsdale

StarsValueConfidentWillAlways

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

Jim Coleman

GoodMakeDesiresUnfortunatelyMany

I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.

Angie Dickinson

ThinkYouTakeOffI ThinkSexier

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

ExcellenceFightConquerFighting

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

Rosamunde Pilcher

LifeMoneyStartYouSexBecome

My attempt is to try to broaden the base of the Republican Party, to try to bring in people that can agree and that can disagree on that, because I think the issues that we face about terrorism, about our economy, about the growth of our economy are so important that we have to have the biggest outreach possible.

Rudy Giuliani

GrowthPeopleFaceThinkPartyTry

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

EvilConstructionNewSpiritMore

Every time I step in the Octagon, I always try to finish.

Jose Aldo

TimeStepTryAlwaysFinishEvery

If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.

DeAngelo Williams

FootballSchoolCollegeYouthYou

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.

Christien Meindertsma

WorkGoodTodayMeStoryYou

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

Brent Scowcroft

GoalsAggressionTraditionalFamiliar

I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.

Arnaud Desplechin

HumbleThinkAmericanPowerfulPure

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