Bill Simmons Quotes

The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

Bill Simmons

Recitation: by Male by Female

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BestBrandLoseWayMoreDifferent

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

Jennifer Grant

FatherI AmChildWorldGentleman

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

Jenny Slate

StupidityThinkConfusedSometimes

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

Jeremy Corbyn

EducationHealthServiceSociety

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.

Robert Gottlieb

GoodStoryYouBadNewBoring

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

Angelina Jolie

LifeGoodHappyGood And EvilEvil

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

Stephen Hough

CommitmentWordsLovedPrincipal

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

Stella Young

PeoplePowerfulMachinePleaserVery

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

Maryanne Wolf

WorkSimpleBrainReadingPresent

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Roseanne Barr

LiveMessHereExcuse

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Missy Elliott

WomenMusicDownSometimesSeriously

It's hard, and I don't always get to see my kids. I will never catch up on that time I've missed.

Mo Farah

TimeMissedWillNeverHardSee

I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.

Mohammad Azharuddin

ThoughtBetterYouLookCaptainSix

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