Jake Arrieta Quotes
That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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I love hip-hop, but hip-hop is a way of life.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.
