Bob Uecker Quotes
People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
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Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.
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People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
