David Ortiz Quotes
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
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I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them... There's no better place to fight for working families than the governor's chair.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.
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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.
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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
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Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
