Bob Feller Quotes
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.
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I would love to do espionage like 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' that kind of thing. And I've always had a fascination with madams. It's interesting to me what that institution is like, how those women are.
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Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
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When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.
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Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.
