Joe Torre Quotes
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.
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Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.
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'Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low; Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind; All that I dread is leaving you behind! Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames - but burn alive.'
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When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs.
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I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.
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Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
