Bob Uecker Quotes
If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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My family's from Eastern Europe.
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Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
