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

• 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

• If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Years
  • Old

• 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?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Music
  • God
  • Way

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Prosecutors committed to reform need talented staff members who share that commitment, and our best legal talent should flock to their offices.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Commitment

• To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• 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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