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 had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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I do YouTube my cars a lot.
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I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me.
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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.
