Satchel Paige Quotes
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.Satchel Paige
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More modern poetry is written than read.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
Aaron Lazar -
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
Magic Johnson -
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer -
We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
Orhan Pamuk -
I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
Fat Joe -
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton -
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher -
I had a very modest upbringing.
Balthazar Getty
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
Walter Payton -
I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
Warren Farrell -
We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
Jackie Robinson -
I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
Finn Jones -
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
T. J. Perkins
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
Salman Rushdie -
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barry Silbert -
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
Matthew Modine -
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige