Branch Rickey Quotes
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
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And she's like 'Angie Harmon is here'!! So I was like, well let me...well fuck me then and I ran as fast as I could!
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My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.
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Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.
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Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
