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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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what is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.
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I have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two classes - deaths which are my affair and deaths which are not my affair - and though the latter class is infinitely more numerous - nevertheless whenever I come in contact with death I am like the dog who lifts his head and sniffs the scent.
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I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
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I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.
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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.
