Derek Jeter Quotes

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Myself

• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Me
  • Passionate

• Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Doing

• I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Never
  • Younger
  • Anybody

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fear

• Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Different
  • Me
  • Perfect

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Job
  • News

• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Worse
  • Attack

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Idol

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Character
  • Today
  • Wisdom

• If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Want
  • Light
  • Baseball

• Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.

  

  Hafsat Abiola
  • Life
  • World
  • Beautiful

• I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • World
  • Job