Warren Spahn Quotes
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.
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I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.
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The audience fills me back up, definitely.
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It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
