Bob Feller Quotes

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

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• I don't think I have a signature.

  

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• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

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• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

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• History's a resource.

  

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• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

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• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

  

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• It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.

  

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• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

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• Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

  

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• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

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• I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

  

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• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

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• If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

  

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• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

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• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

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• I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

  

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• As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

  

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• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

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• With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel?

  

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• I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

  

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• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

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• I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

  

  Bob Feller
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