Ernie Banks Quotes
Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
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From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set in imaginary worlds or feature the appearance in the familiar world of some imaginary entity.
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'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
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Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.
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The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.
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Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.
