A Quote by Brent Musburger

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

Brent Musburger

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Aside Awards Make Object Olympic Political Political Statement Smith Stand Statement Using

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Brent Musburger
American - Celebrity
Born: May 26, 1939

Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse.

Dee Rees

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

Lauren Bush

He took a stance as a man, and the greatest thing about Peter Norman is when you sit back and think about Tommie Smith and John Carlos here in America, they could go beat up on Tommie Smith and get tired of beating up on him and go to the other side of town and find John Carlos and beat up on him, but when Peter Norman left and went to Australia, there was no switch-off on Peter.

John Carlos

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

Linus Torvalds

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.

Raelene Boyle

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

Kurt Braunohler

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Cindy Gallop

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

Kamisese Mara

There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

David Denman

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

Anish Kapoor

Movies by Carlos Saura and others had ghosts, memories from the past, that they used to make a political point. Things you couldn't talk about openly, you could speak of through ghosts.

Juan Antonio Bayona

I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.

Craig Ferguson

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Jon Meacham

I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.