Freddie Freeman Quotes
When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door,
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I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.
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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.
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From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
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When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
