Satchel Paige Quotes
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.
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Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.
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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
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Innovation is a unique combination of existing ideas
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I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality and I can supply those characters.
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Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
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Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another person. Anybody can educate somebody if they feel like their neighbor is stupid. It's more like "Educate thy neighbor, my friend." I think that enthusiasm, and not giving into lazy-minded cynicism, is where the potential and hope is.
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Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
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The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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No ends, simply means.
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Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
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In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.
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Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.
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The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
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It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.
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I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
