Brooks Robinson Quotes
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.
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Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.
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I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
