A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I think I need security.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.
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When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.
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If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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I think one needs a companion at some point in life.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
