Roberto Alomar Quotes
Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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We got all the influences for it Global a Go-Go from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.
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Vegetarianism is a really important part of what we need to do to help the environment. The meat industry is really toxic to the environment. The cattle industry - besides the fact that there's a lot of cruel things happening - the manure is extremely toxic. We just need to pull back as a culture as much as we can.
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Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
