Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

Michael Mandelbaum

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How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.

Jim Valvano

PeopleLookingYouDreamKnowTrue

We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens. These are people - I'm for immigration - legal immigration. I've been an immigration attorney. But people who have come to our country and violated laws, we should not be providing full health care services.

Joe Wilson

HealthPeopleLegalAmericanHelp

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

Jeff Buckley

MyselfChildhoodIdentityEarlyNew

With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.

Amanda Foreman

GenerationWaveNewRefugeesEvery

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Sophocles

WisdomDecisionsQuickUnsafe

I'm a '90s kid, so I went into the entire album process wanting to incorporate little touches of that sound from hip-hop and R&B. Just enough to where you hear it subtly and then go, 'This kind of reminds me of that time.'

Tori Kelly

TimeMeProcessEnoughYouKind

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

Tom Daschle

VoiceSpeakYouAlwaysTaxesIssues

Obviously, when I had the scare with the blood clots, I mean, that's the kind of thing that you don't want to have happen, obviously, and you worry about what it means for the rest of your career.

Tom Glavine

RestWorryYouCareerWantKind

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Michael LeBoeuf

LifeTimeMoneyYouLostOut

'L.A. Confidential' was written with me in mind, but Russell Crowe got the part. Go figure.

Michael Madsen

MindMeGoGotConfidentialFigure

I wasn't a big fan of Instagram at first. I felt it was watering down the way music is perceived 'cause it made things seem more normal.

Ciara

MusicDownWayMoreFirstBig

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Anthony Marra

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