Fifa would benefit hugely from the experience of former players from a variety of backgrounds including Africa and Asia. There aren’t many senior staff who have played at the top level and the organisation needs balance.
My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren’t.
All of my favorite comedy has always been of the grounded variety. Even ‘MacGruber.’ I think that MacGruber is a really grounded character.
We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don’t bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.
Obviously neither ‘American Idol’ nor ‘Dancing With the Stars’ is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.
I’ve been very lucky to have played a variety of characters, and they weren’t defined by their race.
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn’t all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it’s about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
I think I have been blessed to play a variety of roles. I have experimented and done different things.
Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
I have deliberately tried to do a variety of roles during my career so that people aren’t bored of me. I also believe I have never prompted my directors or my audience to say that I have let them down with my performance. Maybe that’s what has worked for me.
With ‘Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ I wanted to play a character who lives more in the real world, although yes, I grant you, he immediately encounters, um, turtles, of the teenage mutant ninja variety.
I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it – except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.
I learned this early on in the variety business: You’ve got to give folks responsibility, you’ve got to trust them, and then you’ve got to check on them.
I’m just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.
Fundamentalism – of any variety – is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.
When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases – and all of a sudden, you’ve blown up your business.
The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.
I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.
Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
Obviously, I play a villain in ‘Downton Abbey’. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.
When I was very small, when I was five or six, that’s what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a song and dance man. Then I got a lot of inspiration from going to visit my grandparents in Glasgow, where I’d go to see variety. That made me want to do it as well.
A man’s primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
If you look at the Karamazov Brothers on TV, they’re really small and the heart is taken out of their act. That’s true for most variety acts. I’m an exception. When the camera comes in close and looks at those soap bubbles, you can really see what bubbles do.
My love of books – not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety – was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.
There’s not much that I haven’t done in my life, but there’s lots of things that I’d like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.
I think a lot of what I loved being a studio executive was the variety and freedom. But now, as a producer, you’re much more able to enjoy those two things. What I loved about it doesn’t necessarily exist anymore.
I can’t say I’d like to concentrate on one particular composer. I’m looking forward to doing a variety.
I’m the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I’m playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.
The worst question is, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ I don’t know. Variety is the spice of life. That’s the best way to describe it.
I feel that the movie in which I’ve played a cop or army man have been bigger hits. That’s why people remember me more as a cop or army person. I’ve even noticed that a lot of films in which I’ve played a variety of wonderful roles haven’t done well.
The post-‘Merlin’ era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That’s the fantastic thing about acting – all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I’m looking forward to different things that come my way.
I wish people would go and just read about this man’s life – about David Koch’s life… Of the literally hundreds of millions of dollars that he has given to a variety of different hospitals.
It’s important to give kids a variety of sports. Everyone is an individual, everyone is different but there is a sport out there for everyone.
Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.
As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc… None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody’s stereotype or ideal.
Given our family’s long history with Variety the Children’s Charity, BJC Health System and St. Jude’s, it was an easy decision to get involved with Victory Junction.
I think I’ve proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That’s how it always works.
I have had a variety of ideas, and I have thought about opening a dance studio. I am very passionate about dance. There are not many dance studios where I live.
I watch a variety of shows. I love ‘Veep,’ ‘Parks and Recreation,’ ‘Girls,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ and fun shows like ‘Empire.’
If you don’t have that indefinable unique personality, you must learn as much as possible about acting in a variety of roles. That’s why, at the outset of my career, I decided to learn every facet of my profession.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
I don’t want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues, because they’re different, and the scale isn’t even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren’t true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.
When I had kids, I had to work out how to keep my stamina up. I learned the power of protein and eating a variety of foods.
What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.
To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
