Carl Yastrzemski Quotes
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
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When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.
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Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.
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I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
