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Alex Spanos Quotes

My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

Alex Spanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: September 28, 1923

Topics

Business Moment Football Construction

I spend about half my time in mobile and half my time on enterprise.

Jim Goetz

Time Half Mobile My Time Spend

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

Maz Jobrani

Past Never Stage Competitive Gone

In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.

John Lanchester

Work Money Pizza People World Find

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

Andy Griffith

Good Time I Am Voice Story Acting

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

John Waters

I Can Independent More Low Used Any

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

Stephanie Coontz

Change Yourself You Convince Bother

You can always learn when you lose.

Stan Wawrinka

Learn You Lose Always

In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.

Tom Shales

Good City Nobody Sometimes Newspaper

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

Robert Wilson

Work Nature Think Things Just Many

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

Brian May

Money Queen Happy Never Right Up

Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.

Autre Ne Veut

Politics Friends Nice Say She Her

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

Winona Ryder

Think Loved Remember Movies Imagine