Carl Yastrzemski Quotes

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Carl Yastrzemski

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• Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Around
  • Box
  • Binge

• The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Never
  • Will
  • Become

• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.

  

  Candice Olson
  • First
  • I Can
  • Interior

• I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kind

• Libraries can take the place of God.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Place
  • Libraries

• Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • City
  • Doing
  • Now And Then

• It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Know

• I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Life
  • Society
  • Risk

• The way some of these politicians talk about homosexuality is very insulting. They treat it like it's a disease, like being gay is contagious. Being gay is not contagious. And if you think that it is, YOU'RE GAY.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Gay

• Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Teacher
  • Petty

• I'd like to tour all over the world. I'd like to be everywhere. I've really wanted to tour out of the country. I think that would be really cool.

  

  Jimmy Bennett
  • World
  • Country
  • Cool

• You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • Up
  • Trying

• I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Remember
  • True
  • Wall

• I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Church

• With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Running
  • Stop

• I was slightly starstruck by Justin Bieber! I mean, he is cute!

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Cute

• The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own...

  

  Billy Joe Shaver
  • Devil
  • First Time
  • Second Time

• I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Experience
  • Characters
  • Knock Down

• During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

  

  Helen Keller
  • Tree
  • Flower
  • Darkness

• The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• It is like being wrenched soul first through time.

  

  Alison Moore
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Wrenched

• When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Knock Down
  • Second Time