Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes
My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
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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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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.
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They really need to know much more about where the food comes from - how to grow it and cook it, how to make consumer choices that are good for the environment and the local economy.
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I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
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Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.
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My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
