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Dan Hill Quotes

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

Dan Hill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 3, 1954

Topics

Business Best Boxing Sometimes Hype

I've played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, 'I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.'

Joe Morton

Good Thought Bad Career Find Play

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

John O. Brennan

Problem You Shapes Define How

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

Live Opportunity History Journalism

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

Robert Englund

American First Always Serve English

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Rosa Luxemburg

Depression Silence Government Society

I never try to avoid 'Ugly Betty' fans, as I love them.

Michael Urie

Love Ugly Try Never Fans Avoid

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Michelle Obama

Success Confidence You Country Will

With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.

Jonathan Zittrain

Writing Rise Engineers New Software

We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.

Anohni

Life Mother Destiny Hands Manifest

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Science Parents Clear Made Once

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Tim Crouch

Relationship Art I Am Ideas Creating

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

Nuno Bettencourt

Great Song You Write Over Monster