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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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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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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The NBA man, we have always been progressive.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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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.
