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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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
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Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
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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.
