Derek Jeter Quotes
My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
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At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
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Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
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My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
