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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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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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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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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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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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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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'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.
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In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
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Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.
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I think it's well-known that I love all things ABC and Shonda Rhimes - I'm a huge 'Scandal' and 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
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It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.
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I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
