Jerry Coleman Quotes

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

Jerry Coleman

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Man

• One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • You
  • Cure

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Day
  • Rest

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Most
  • Australia
  • Countryside

• My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • American
  • Parents

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • History
  • Violence
  • Laugh

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Hammer
  • Toilet

• Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Race
  • Healing
  • Redemption

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Know
  • Never
  • Books

• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Time
  • Great
  • Father

• Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Fun
  • Learning
  • Marriage

• We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Health

• Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Strong

• Shiny new real estate may dress up a declining city, but it doesn’t solve its underlying problems. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have too much housing and infrastructure relative to the strength of their economies. With all that supply of structure and so little demand, it makes no sense to use public money to build more supply. The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren’t structures; cities are people.

  

  Edward Glaeser
  • Money
  • Problems
  • Cities

• Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Humor