David Ortiz Quotes

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

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• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

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• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

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• I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

  

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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

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• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

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• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  

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• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

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• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

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• The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.

  

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• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

  

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• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  

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• I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

  

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• My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

  

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• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

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• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

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• Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

  

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• My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

  

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• Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

  

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• Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.

  

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• My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

  

  David Ortiz
  • She
  • Happy
  • Mother