Doug Harvey Quotes
There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
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I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it's something that, when I'm not traveling as much, I'll definitely get back into.
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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
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There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.
