Branch Rickey Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
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I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.
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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
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When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
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I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
