Bob Feller Quotes
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
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It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
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My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'
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I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
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I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.
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Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
