Jim Thome Quotes
My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.Jim Thome
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
Kate McKinnon -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis -
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
Taylor Cole -
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
Malcolm Gladwell -
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Owen Hart -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay -
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi -
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
Tate Taylor -
Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
Zach Anner -
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
Ira Glass
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Ian Fleming -
Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
E. L. James -
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner -
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
Jack Kornfield -
I live for the text. It's my job.
Ian Mckellen -
A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
Barry Ritholtz
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If one wants to make a machine mimic the behaviour of the human computer in some complex operation one has to ask him how it is done, and then translate the answer into the form of an instruction table. Constructing instruction tables is usually described as 'programming.'
Alan Turing -
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
Hanya Yanagihara -
When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.
Tzipi Livni -
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
Charles Sturt -
My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.
Jim Thome