Bob Lemon Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.
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I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.
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I’m not a paper doll. Can’t make me what you want. You just build me up and tear me down. Enough’s enough. Go, leave me alone. Cut me down but I won’t fall. I’m not a paper doll.
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I feel as if we have the best team in the country. You've got to have that feeling.
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Where the fuck did they make you, Kid?What's that mean?Where does someone like you come from?I've lived a lot of places.Like where?Why do you care?Just wondering.Stop wondering.Why?I don't want to make friends here.Why?I don't like good-byes.You gotta say them though.No, you don't.
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
