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Frank Deford Quotes

I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017

Topics

Sports Colleagues Sexy Momentum New

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

John C. Maxwell

Failure Attitude Altitude Your After

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

Police Forget Authority Duty Protect

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Music Listen Miserable Because Pop

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

Growth Money Government Value People

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

Justice Commitment Words I Am Saying

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Good Game Foundation You Pitching

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Criticism Political Understanding His

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Blue Ancestors Enemies Up English

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

People Me Think Want Way Up

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

People Poverty Poor Poor People Must

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

Me Think Still Studio Suspect Lot

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

Colson Whitehead

Love Failure Chaos World Think View

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