No, he got himself in a predicament where he felt threatened so he kind of took the offensive. He paid his price. Now it's over and it wasn't anything that was (premeditated). He just got himself in a spot where he was uncomfortable and it happened. He served his suspension and it's over.


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I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems...
TERRY WOGAN
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW
People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM
The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF
My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#...
TERRY ZWIGOFF
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought ...
TERRY EAGLETON
The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executi...
TERRY TEACHOUT
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
TERRY EAGLETON
I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s...
TERRY TEACHOUT
Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN
It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT
They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
PAUL TERRY
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
TERRY PRATCHETT
Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
TERRY PRATCHETT
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...
TERRY PRATCHETT
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
TERRY JOHNSON
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is ...
TERRY GOODKIND
Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
TERRY PRATCHETT
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it f...
TERRY PRATCHETT
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
TERRY EAGLETON