Johnny Bench Quotes

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

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• There are different reasons to make movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Reasons

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Words
  • You

• I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Justice
  • Rap
  • Vigilante

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Goes

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Dedicated
  • Disdain
  • Unconventional

• I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Terrific

• You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Success
  • Me
  • Failure

• There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Red

• I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Attention

• Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Picture

• The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

  

  Johnny Bench
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