Warren Spahn Quotes
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I think I need security.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
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I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
