Jimmy Piersall Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
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You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run - Tried to hide - Break on through to the other side!
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Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.
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I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.
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All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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I hear so many complaints to the effect that Negroes do not take advantage of the educational opportunities offered them. Well, one of the reasons why more of my race do not go in for higher education is that as soon as one of us gets his head above the crowd there are millions of feet ready to crush it back again to that dead level of commonplace thus creating a racial deadline of culture in our Republic. For how am I to compete with other American artists if I am not to be given the same opportunity?
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Nutrition makes me puke.
