Don Drysdale Quotes
Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
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Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.
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Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.
