Ralph Macchio Quotes
I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
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I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
