Sometimes, for example, we assume the people hearing us don't know anything. I've read a commentator saying that the new Jazz ... OK, we got that part, move on.
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Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
I have a lot more in common in my worldview with Pope John Paul II or conservative commentator Bill Bennett, both Roman Catholics, than I do with Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or Al Gore, who are all Southern Baptists.
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.
There had never been a black guy up to that point who had been a television commentator in the U.S., so I suggested he hire a black guy to do the TV. He thought it was a great idea, so we tried to get Willie Mays.
I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.
McCain had to defend himself on the same issue. Pressed by conservative commentator Alan Keyes on a mounting controversy after saying earlier Wednesday it would be a family decision ... I will not draw my children into this discussion.
Racing with Team Cadillac and having Andy as a teammate is going to be a great experience. Based on the performance of the cars over the past two years, I'm confident we'll have good equipment. I've watched the close competition in the World Challenge as a television commentator, and I'm looking forward to being in the middle of the action as a driver. My job is to win races - that's the objective of everyone at Team Cadillac.
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?
The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.
When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.
Such was Reagan's belief in the power of radio that in the 1970s he turned down an offer to be a commentator on CBS television and instead opted for two and a half minutes of daily syndicated radio commentary. His thinking was that he wanted to leave the impression of the commentary, rather than of a talking head, ... He thought the substance was going to last longer.
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.