Christy Mathewson Quotes
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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What's to gain by silence?
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The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.
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I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.
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I have a 47-year-old daughter, who we’re very close now… But her mother left, took her, I didn’t see her for years, i have a son, Chuckie, whose mother was an addict. I was an addict. And he ended up, of course, being an addict… He ended up in prison, which broke my heart… Now he’s clean and doing well.
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We see the Super Hornet as an opportunity... to tie directly into the 'Make in India' strategy.
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When you do snack, stick with healthier options like fruits, veggies, nuts, and low-fat, whole-grain products.
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A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
