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.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• 'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Years
  • Politics

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Baseball
  • First
  • Welfare

• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Know
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• 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.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Think
  • Years

• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Years

• When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • Years
  • Christmas
  • Old

• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • She
  • Funny
  • Woman

• Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Take Care

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Years
  • Baseball

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Years
  • Two
  • Over

• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Film
  • Years
  • Criticism

• No one expected me to become a champion.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Me
  • Champion
  • Become

• I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Start

• I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Doing

• What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Fat
  • Makes
  • Kill You

• 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.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
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