James Mercer Quotes
I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
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I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
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I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.
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The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
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I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
