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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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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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.
