Harmon Killebrew Quotes
Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I never consciously choose what I'm going to work on next; I don't have an agenda beyond that attraction. Fortunately, my wonderful agent, Christopher Schelling, knows how I think and points me toward things I might like, which is how I started writing Y.A.
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For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.
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Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down.
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My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.
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When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."
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Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.
