David Ortiz Quotes
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
Quotes to Explore
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Collecting is my passion.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
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Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.
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I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.
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Unless he really starts feeling good, in all likelihood I wouldn't think he'd go this week.
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Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
