Derek Jeter Quotes
If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
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My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.
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If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.
