Branch Rickey Quotes
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Branch Rickey
Quotes to Explore
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
Fernando Flores
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
Kate Klise
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I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'
Ophelia Lovibond
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
Barack Obama
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
Orson Scott Card
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When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.
M. C. Escher
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
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I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.
Willem Dafoe
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I'm always trying to switch voices and genres.
Colson Whitehead
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I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.
Charlize Theron
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The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Branch Rickey