Pedro Martinez Quotes
You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
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I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.
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Make believin in foreverIs just a lie.And it seems a little sadderEach time we try.'Cause it's a shame to makeThe same mistakes again,And again.It's over.Nobody wins.
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When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.
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You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
