Jake Peavy Quotes

In San Diego, I saw Keith Urban perform, and I've seen a lot of acts, and he's better than anybody I've seen.

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• I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Home
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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Small
  • College

• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • People
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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
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• It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Work
  • Single

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Real
  • History
  • Movie

• Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Up
  • Church

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Society
  • Security

• I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
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• I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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  • Old

• I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
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  • Game

• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

  

  Maimonides
  • Disease
  • Diet
  • Other

• Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Real
  • You
  • Know

• I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.

  

  Usher
  • Energy
  • Body
  • Cold

• That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,' and then getting to go to the moon.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.

  

  Nicolas Massu
  • World
  • Number
  • Chile

• The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Interesting

• I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case—the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Hope
  • Interest
  • Produce

• One in All All in One-- If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect.

  

  Edward Conze
  • Perfect
  • Worry
  • Realized

• In San Diego, I saw Keith Urban perform, and I've seen a lot of acts, and he's better than anybody I've seen.

  

  Jake Peavy