Bill Simmons Quotes

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Bill Simmons

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Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

Steve Bannon

AmericanNationalismCountrySystem

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Sonny Bono

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I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

Skrillex

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The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

Rivers Cuomo

TruthHateMeTruth IsBadStage

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!

Rod Stewart

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Ring Kuot, a 15-year-old Sudanese boy, was rumored to be eight feet three. And until Leonid's emergence at eight feet four inches last spring, people generally assumed that Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, at seven feet nine, was the tallest documented man in the world.

Michael Paterniti

ManSpringPeopleWorldFeetThree

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Milton Friedman

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When I cast someone in a movie, I have to absolutely trust who they are as a human being. Trust is the intangible of moviemaking.

Derek Cianfrance

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When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.

Cobie Smulders

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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Anne Hutchinson

TruthGraceMoreSalvationClearly

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Alicia Keys

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The public is a part of my real life.

Placido Domingo

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