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Frank Deford Quotes

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Week Television Track Event Era

The world is evolving.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

Me You Him Give Me Give Hour

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Jennifer Garner

Kind Rehearsal Musical Theater Ballet

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

Generosity Well-Being Sometimes Taxes

Certainly as a kid, I grew up with Batman, Superman, whoever - they didn't need to be black for me to relate to them. But when a character like Cyborg came along, I got excited, because he looked a little bit more like me; his experiences were a little bit more like mine.

Character Me Black Superman Need Up

I started Chipotle with the idea to create an experience that's fast - and not fast food.

Food Experience Fast Create Started

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Music Myself Words Creative Writing

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

Curious Literature Listen Open Us

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

Lift Economy Floor Whole Only Whose

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Together Morals Church Bad Sunday

I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.

Work Sports Sleep Early Party Play

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

Christy Turlington

Myself Smoking Comfort Others Never

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