Ralph Kiner Quotes
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.
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I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
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I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
