Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.
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There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
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Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
