Bob Feller Quotes
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
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So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze the euro debate into the old language. But deep down it is a matter of deciding where one's future lies. It is a matter of political will and courage.
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
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Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
