A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I think I need security.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.
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I like anything sweet.
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We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who create wealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandate to appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command. I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrol methods for nearly a century because they said they knew better. It is now obvious that they didn’t.
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Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
