- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The loss of my father marked my life. I'm 88 years old and I'm still mourning him because it's such a drama for me. It was just after my bar mitzvah and it was so tragic. The effect on me, I carry it all my life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it because that's just what I need, to get a great series of takes and then find out the camera was frozen.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
- Ex-Wives
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.
- Nov 07, 2020
They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.
- Enroll
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its tent flaps this May of 2017. Yes, this is my swansong, my farewell, my last hurrah. Adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020