David Ortiz Quotes

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

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• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Good
  • Quality

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Together
  • Strong
  • Team

• I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Tough

• Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Responsibility
  • Obstacles

• Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Christmas
  • Something

• I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Romantic

• I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Believe
  • Game
  • I Believe

• If you enjoy reading something, read it.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • You
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Fun

• Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country
  • Devil

• The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Bad

• It is as difficult for Chinese politicians to get a real smile from the people as it is to keep the sky blue and clouds white.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Real
  • Smile

• Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people’s wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on ’em.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Good
  • Broken

• In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Preparation

• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • May
  • Silence

• I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Happy

• My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
  • Great
  • She

• What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

  

  David Ortiz