Mark Teixeira Quotes
I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.
Quotes to Explore
-
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
-
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
-
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
-
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
-
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
-
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
-
The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
-
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
-
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
-
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
-
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
-
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
-
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
-
Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
-
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
-
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
-
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
-
Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
-
It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
-
I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.
-
When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.
-
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
-
The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
-
I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.
