Bill Buford Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson -
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas -
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary -
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen -
My eye is ever on those who love me.
Sai Baba -
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
Dana Stabenow
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
Young Jeezy -
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
Garth Brooks -
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Fidel Castro -
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian -
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Hanoi Hannah -
I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
Vanilla Ice -
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill -
I eat next to nothing.
Karl Lagerfeld -
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman -
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry
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The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
Dan Simmons -
Niggas die everyday, all ova bullshitDope money, dice games, ordinary hood shitCould this be cuz of Hip Hop musicOr did the ones with the good sense not use it?
T.I. -
Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.
Nicki Minaj -
I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
M. J. Rose -
I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
Chris Kyle -
I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.
Bill Buford