Jason Giambi Quotes
You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
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I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.
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I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
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You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
