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 the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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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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The great love of my life is music.
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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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What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.
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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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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
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Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
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Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
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I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.
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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.
