Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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I've been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer.
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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
