Bert Blyleven Quotes
I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
-
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
-
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
-
When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
-
Everything can be satirized.
-
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
-
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
-
I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
-
When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
-
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
-
I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
-
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
-
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
-
The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
-
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
-
I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
-
A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
-
Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
-
I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
-
Britain, as a relatively large economy which exports more to non-EU than to EU markets, would be better off trading freely with the single market than belonging to it.
-
Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.
-
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
-
Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.
-
I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.
