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Tom Benson Quotes

Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.

Tom Benson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1927

Topics

Positive Hope Football City Game

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

Jim Hodges

Work Expect Subtle Some Should Very

I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

Joe Penny

Fast Always Up Hanging Older Kids

Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.

Johan Rockstrom

Loss Poverty Earth Tax Out Leave

I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.

Jennifer Egan

Life Good Vision Fun Face Think

I think that 99 percent of the time, I'm jocular, lighthearted.

Andrew Breitbart

Time Think Lighthearted Percent

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

Steven Pinker

Mind Society Single Misleading Were

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

Mary Ellen Mark

Funny Opinion Think Feel Photograph

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Lloyd Alexander

Friends Teachers Others Greatest

I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then, when I graduated, that didn't happen immediately. I didn't suddenly get solo shows in Chelsea, and I realized that is actually kind of difficult to break into.

Lisa Hanawalt

Art Thought Kind Photographer Break

If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.

Jason Blum

Good Thinking You True Everyone

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

Diana Gabaldon

Children Reading Think Important

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

Dick Wolf

Management You Table Now Programming