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

• Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Want
  • Eat

• 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
  • Chinese

• 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

• If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • True

• Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.

  

  Li Shufu
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Car

• I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Winning
  • Celebrity
  • Olympics

• To get anything done, Obama has to be seen as having winning economy - which isn't easy.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Done
  • Winning

• Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

  

  Anne Edwards
  • Winning
  • Georgia
  • Premiere

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

  

  Melky Cabrera
  • Winning
  • Awards
  • Tainted