Johnny Bench Quotes
It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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All teens are in trouble in one form or another.
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If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
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I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.
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We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
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It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.
