Ernie Harwell Quotes
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I'm very unorganized.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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Obviously, it'd mean a lot to fans and baseball historians and stuff like that. But we're not worried about that. We're worried about the 25 guys in here.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
