Dwight Gooden Quotes
I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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I've been a free man.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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'The operation was a success, but the patient died.' What such a procedure is to medicine, the Court's opinion in this case is to law.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
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You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.
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When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.
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I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
