Ernie Banks Quotes
I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
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Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
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Today is a new day for the land.
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To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
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It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.
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There's a lot of money coming in, and so a lot of good players are going to each team, so every game is a fight, but on the other hand, it's good to get a good, competitive league.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.
