Dave Winfield Quotes
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
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To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
