Johnny Evers Quotes
In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.
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Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
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It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
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In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
