Bob Feller Quotes
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
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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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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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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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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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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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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
