Joe Mays Quotes
It was a great pitch. It was the right pitch. He just went out of the strike zone to get it. That's what great hitters do.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
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I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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It was a great pitch. It was the right pitch. He just went out of the strike zone to get it. That's what great hitters do.
