George Brett Quotes
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I never read the tabloids.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
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I love onions. I cook with them all the time.
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I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
