Bill Simmons Quotes

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

Bill Simmons

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FearGodFootballGoalFlagRealize

There's great affection, tremendous loyalty, but anytime you open up the season, when you walk in the locker room, there is a circle, and my obligation to everyone in that locker room is the circle has to be as strong as possible to give us a chance to win.

Jim Irsay

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I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.

Jessica Stockholder

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I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.

Max Martin

MomentWantMissedNothingSingle

If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

Andy Grammer

SadSongLookingEndWriteUp

A person can't just drive around the North Slope, visit the locals, stop in at a burger joint. There are no locals, no burger joints, no houses, no cities, no churches.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

DriveBurgerStopPersonJustVisit

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

Michael Carbonaro

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I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

John Wesley

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Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Method Man

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Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

Steven Spielberg

TelevisionFiveWhoEverybodyWorks

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Roberto Cavalli

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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Miguel de Icaza

TodayComputersSomeoneSoftware

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

Chris O'Dowd

GoNeverAvoidShowbizPoleThem

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