Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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You have to be yourself.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
