Dave Winfield Quotes
But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.
