Mark Teixeira Quotes
My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.
Quotes to Explore
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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My values tend to gravitate toward the older ways. There is a high degree of honor in being a troubadour. You sure can't be doing it for the money.
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I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.
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As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
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We have travelled far from the standpoint which identifies the real with the concrete. Even the older philosophy found it necessary to admit exceptions; for example, time must be admitted to be real, although no one could attribute to it a concrete nature.
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Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.
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My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.
