Gaylord Perry Quotes
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.
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As we say, finals are not to play them, they are to win them.
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There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help.
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Any standup that you see who you go, 'Oh, wow, that guy's, you know, that guy's making it.' Inevitably, they've been doing it 10, 12 years - 10, 15 years. Because it takes time.
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
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I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.
