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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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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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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I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
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The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
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I was very, very naughty in school.
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In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.
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My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
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The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.
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Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.
