Roberto Clemente Quotes
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
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I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.
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Go out to the last few grains of sand, the smartest of the smartest of the smartest, times a thousand. It makes sense that people would be a little odd out here. But you really have to wonder why we all end up in jail.
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
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The best way to motivate me is to tell me I can't do something.
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I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
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Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.
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For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
