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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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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Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.
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This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
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I care deeply about those who struggle to get by - but I believe the best thing to do is help them stand on their own two feet. And no, that’s not saying, 'You're on your own,' but, 'We are on your side, helping you be all you can.' And I believe in something for something; not something for nothing.
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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
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Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.
