Bert Blyleven Quotes
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.
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I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.
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There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.
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My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.
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I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
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Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.
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I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.
