Melky Cabrera Quotes
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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Developing a series is a next step for me.
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I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.
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In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
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I was a cute kid.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.
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I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.
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We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.
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The path to accepting your sexuality has to start somewhere. For those identify as heterosexual, the childhood bliss of an early crush is typically encouraged and praised. Milestones such as your first date and the prom are celebrated by parents and friends. But when you’re anything other than straight, it’s more complicated; your growth gets shrouded and stunted. That’s why a lot of queer people, when they fall in love and get into a relationship for the first time, revert to a kind of prepubescent puppy love: spontaneous, impulsive, obsessive, and ecstatic. I’ve heard many people express annoyance at friends who “just came out and it’s totally cool and whatever, but do they have to talk about it all the time?” My answer to that is “Yes. Yes, they do. Don’t you remember puppy love? Well, imagine if you had to hide it for twenty years. So yeah, if they wanna gush about it, let them gush. There’s a first time for everything.
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I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.
