Ralph Kiner Quotes
You needed to perform your best and you were going to use everything that's legal to help you do it. You worked to get that job and you wanted to stay in the lineup. If you got out of the lineup, you might never get back in.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
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I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
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When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.
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Kindness is wisdom.
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You needed to perform your best and you were going to use everything that's legal to help you do it. You worked to get that job and you wanted to stay in the lineup. If you got out of the lineup, you might never get back in.
