Bill Flores Quotes
Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.
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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.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.
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As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.
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Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.
