Jake Peavy Quotes

When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I've had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do.

Jake Peavy

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• No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Help
  • Door
  • Story

• The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Long
  • Competition

• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Individual
  • Greatest

• The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Mind
  • Done
  • May

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • History
  • Dream
  • Always

• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Quality
  • Measure
  • Citizen

• There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Hope
  • Beauty
  • Look

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Want
  • You
  • Know

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Service

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • Know
  • Magic

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Best
  • Like

• I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Studio

• My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Father
  • Sensible

• I could never see myself playing a goblin or gnome, without some serious CGI at least!

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Serious

• There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

  

  Joschka Fischer

• To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Pursuit

• If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Pool

• When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I've had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Pool