Jimmy Piersall Quotes
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
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I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.
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The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.
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Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.
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Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.
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Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.
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Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
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Music and the music business are two different things.
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We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.
