Dennis Eckersley Quotes
Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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I was a chatty kid.
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.
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Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
