Ernie Harwell Quotes
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I put up some great numbers.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.
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Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
