Jon Lester Quotes
One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I'm very unorganized.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
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The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.
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Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.
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One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.
