Carl Yastrzemski Quotes
I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?
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I do understand how anybody who had relatives or friends in Bali is going to be extremely anxious and we are all the time, hour by hour, upgrading the staffing to take account of pressure people obviously feel.
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I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.
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I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.
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I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
