Don Zimmer Quotes
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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Women just love to shop.
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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She became transparent skin over bones, her eyes drowning in violet wells, her hands damp spider webs.
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But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.
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It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all, and that he eventually became divine for his followers in some sense before he came to be thought of as equal with God Almighty in an absolute sense. But the point I stress is that this was, in fact, a development.
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They're not kinder and gentler in the handling of prisoners; they think a bad guy is a bad guy, ... In many cases these guys are related to someone who has killed a police officer.
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Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.
