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 I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called 'conservative,' as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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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.
