Ernie Banks Quotes
I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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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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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are told you'll never amount to anything, etc, the challenges are enormous.
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I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it over a fire using my toasting fork.
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I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try that. Hey, mom, I want to be on TV!' And she's like, 'OK, let's get you an agent.'
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Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.
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Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
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President Obama has been very clear as he laid out the goal, and the objective is to close Guantanamo.
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The same liberals who want to protect the constitutional right of people like Colin Kaepernick to symbolically reject America by taking a knee were the ones quick to criticize Tim Tebow for bending a knee to pray and thank God on the field.
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I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.
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For years, Trump himself was the Trump Foundation's only source of money: Between 1987 and 2006, he donated $5.4 million.
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If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.
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Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.
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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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I like strong women. Physical women.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
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Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
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I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.
