Melky Cabrera Quotes
My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I don't care about sex anymore. It's a headache. It's hard to trust people. You talk to a girl, and then she screenshots a text message.
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I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.
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I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.
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My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.
