Max Baer Quotes
On being called Jethro now: “It`s like somebody calling you a son of a bitch. If he`s your friend, it`s okay. If he`s your enemy, it`s not.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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I love what I do.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
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All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.
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On being called Jethro now: “It`s like somebody calling you a son of a bitch. If he`s your friend, it`s okay. If he`s your enemy, it`s not.
