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The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it.
To be honest with you, I literally don't even know how to style my hair unless I'm doing an event because I rely on hair stylists.
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on their glasses, and it's just fun.
Instead of going to a GLAAD event and standing on a soapbox, I am writing roles that I feel will change the narrative and open doors.
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.
I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.
I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.
I've dreamed on numerous occasions that I've lost the biggest event in my life, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it.
At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that will summarize the story.
The city of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans.
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.
If you ask two people to remember a specific event, the stories are going to vary wildly because we always make ourselves out to be the hero.
In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages.
Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.
Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.
As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.
I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.
When designing - whether it's a living room, event space, or tablescape - I always want guests to feel as though they are part of the experience.
If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.
There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.