Bob Feller Quotes
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Quotes to Explore
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
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Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
