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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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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It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.
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People love a conflict. Artistic conflict is not like that at all. It's just wanting your own space, it's not wanting what the other person has. And we dissolved at a good time - we were very close to the top of our game.
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It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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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.
