Frank Deford Quotes

The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.

Frank Deford

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Author Biography

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

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I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

Jesse Ventura

NatureTruthUncomfortableComfort

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Maya Angelou

MindHairSmallWriteSomething

Argentines have billions of pesos overseas because they didn't trust in the state.

Mauricio Macri

TrustBecauseStateOverseas

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.

Anna Deavere Smith

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Fashion is not art. Never.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

Stone Gossard

CarBikeThinkYouNobodyGo

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

Shiri Appleby

CrazyWorldThinkProcessTelevision

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere

NatureBestFruitTreesSlowGrow

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.

Donald Tusk

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Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Coretta Scott King

FreedomSufferingPrisonHonorWay

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

Chubby Checker

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A lot of us don't get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

Boots Riley

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