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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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
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I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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I thought: should I be worried? I was under arrest. In a town where I'd never been before. Apparently for murder. But I knew two things. First, they couldn't prove something had happened if it hadn't happened. And second, I hadn't killed anybody. Not in their town, and not for a long time, anyway.
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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.
