Don Zimmer Quotes
He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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All great success is preceded by failure.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.
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He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.
