Satchel Paige Quotes
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
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My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!
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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.
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In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.
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It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it, argued about it.
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I think it's a known fact that Joel and I have always loved Australia since we started coming here 13 or 14 years ago. Everyone knows we love it here. Our only concern is will we wear our welcome out?
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I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
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A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
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Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
