Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes
All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.
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I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
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There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.
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All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
