Roberto Clemente Quotes
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.
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Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
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A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
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I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
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I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
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Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.
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I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
