Carl Yastrzemski Quotes
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.
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I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
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It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.
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In 10th grade, I was kicking it with the seniors. I introduced myself, and they were like, 'Yeah, Demetrius is cool, but we're gonna call you Pac.' That was it! It could be worse!
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I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.
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This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.
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When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
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My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
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If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
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Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.
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Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
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Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.
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How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!
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We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with an individual who has been here maybe for some long period of time. Amnesty is not on the table period. There will be no amnesty in the United States. We're a country of law and the idea that we're going to tell people that somehow or another that that's all forgiven is not going to happen. How we deal with them is a conversation. I don't know if I know all the answers. I want to talk to the American people.
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
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Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.
