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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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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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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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.
