David Cone Quotes
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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We hope to make some progress as they day goes on. Obviously we want to get up to full strength as soon as possible.
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I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
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I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.
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I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
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I would like to think that my 25 years of helping to lead a movement and give shape to it and building a rather large nonprofit corporation, serving on many corporate boards … would serve as background for this job.
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A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
