Ban Johnson Quotes
A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
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Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.
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A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.
