David Cone Quotes
I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
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My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
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I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.
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I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.
