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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Strangely enough, I don't mention my sister too much in my columns because she nags me and says, 'Don't make me look foolish. Don't write nonsense about me. Don't make jokes about me.'
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So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
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I could never have predicted the invention of streaming, the rerelease of the show Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and that people still wanted to hear about it. I do love how we came back to it, but it was never up to me. It won't be up to me this time, either. If it ended there, I would be sad, but I also like what we did.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.
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I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
