Dizzy Dean Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I'm a typical California boy.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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Part of me wants nothing to do with any Hollywood. But another part of me wants to go there. I feel like I could be successful at it.
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Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house - You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.
