Fay Vincent Quotes
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
