"The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO."

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Source : "Football Needs A Guardian, Not A CEO". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. July 09, 2013.

Frank Deford

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“Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.”
“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.”

Source : Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.
“One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.”
“Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'”
“[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.”
“Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.”

Source : "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.
“In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.”
“At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.”

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