Mark Kurlansky Quotes
Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.Mark Kurlansky
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
Pablo Sandoval -
Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
Hanya Yanagihara -
My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
Yami Gautam -
Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
Kate Klise -
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir -
When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
Ozwald Boateng
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long -
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson -
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
Vin Scully -
When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
Olivia Hussey -
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
Callie Khouri -
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Ralph Abernathy
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
Oleg Cassini -
I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
Rachel Kushner -
I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
Sadie Jones -
Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips -
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
Barry Bonds -
What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
La'Porsha Renae
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Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
Elliott Smith -
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
Ibrahim Rugova -
America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.
James Lankford -
I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
Victoria Osteen -
But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.
Deborah Bull -
Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.
Mark Kurlansky