Satchel Paige Quotes
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
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It is funny what a year can do.
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Even though 'Spider-Man' is a huge blockbuster, it really didn't feel like that. It felt like we were making this weird, funny high school movie. Like just hanging out with a group of friends.
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
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Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
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My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.
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I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
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I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
