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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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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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
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It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.
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It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
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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.
