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 realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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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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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.
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In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.
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Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends: They're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
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Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.
