Jake Arrieta Quotes
Just having two kids now, regardless of what happens in the field, they're there to receive you with open arms every night after every game.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
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What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
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Just having two kids now, regardless of what happens in the field, they're there to receive you with open arms every night after every game.
