Eric Davis Quotes
I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.
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We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
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What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.
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In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.
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We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.
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I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
