Johnny Evers Quotes
A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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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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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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I'll keep singing 'till I die.
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Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.
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What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
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A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.
