Jim Evans Quotes
After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
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My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.
