Duane Chapman Quotes
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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I want to go down in history.
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It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
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I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.
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I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
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I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
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The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
