Ralph Kiner Quotes
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.
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With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
