Melky Cabrera Quotes

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

Melky Cabrera

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• Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Attention
  • Clothes
  • Too Much

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Self

• If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Essence
  • Creature

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Believe
  • Deep
  • Company

• I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Space

• What's to gain by silence?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.

  

  Alison Lohman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

  

  Claire McCaskill

• For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Great
  • Together
  • Faith

• With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • People
  • May
  • Home

• It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Music
  • Different
  • Food

• We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Success
  • Song

• 'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin

• Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.

  

  John Burnham Schwartz
  • People

• It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Important
  • Money
  • Vision

• The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Culture
  • Control
  • Moral

• Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Wisdom

• That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Done
  • Today
  • Army

• We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Team
  • Fall
  • Winning

• I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

  

  Melky Cabrera
  • Winning
  • Awards
  • Tainted