Steve Finley Quotes

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

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• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Birthday
  • Celebrate

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Society
  • Small

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Relationship
  • Intelligent

• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  

  Ouida
  • Great
  • Laws
  • Petty

• I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Myself
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Space

• My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Friend

• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

  

  Harry Browne
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Miracles

• I always show up to the office sweaty! I'll come in between workouts in a tennis skirt drenched in sweat. The only time that I actually look presentable is at meetings.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Look

• He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.

  

  Neil Gaiman

• I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of women try to tuck their butt in or kind of slouch because they're trying to hide. Obviously, you can't suck it in, but it's important to really show off the belly.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Important
  • Women
  • Trying

• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Superhero

• If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

  

  Steve Finley
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Stills