Roberto Clemente Quotes
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Quotes to Explore
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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Baseball is a team game.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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Poland reminds us that sometimes the smallest steps, however imperfect, can ultimately tear down walls, can ultimately transform the world.
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Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that 'this present' might be 'the world's last night'; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
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It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
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I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we've had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?
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You want stability in the world, you have to start with values.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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At the Bauhaus, Klee exuded a healthy, generative atmosphere – as a great artist and as a lucid, pure human being.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.
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Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
