Bobby Thomson Quotes
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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I am a Zionist.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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That's what sometimes separates people who always run and always train and people who maybe move on in life and do something else. I think I'm a lot more likely to be someone like Joan Benoit (Samuelson), who keeps going forever, just because I actually really like it, as opposed to someone who stops and never runs again.
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I'm not trying to say,That I'm smelling of roses, But when will we tire,Of putting shit up our noses.
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My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
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How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
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In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
