Jimmy Piersall Quotes
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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I like being unconventional.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.
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The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I am such a political person.
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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I wanted to write about the things that I love.
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No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.
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I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.
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I bought the sweetness with this pain.
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I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
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If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.
