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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.

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Game
  • Sweet
  • Friendship

• 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.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• 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?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Comfortable
  • Skin
  • Jew

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  

  Ovid
  • Heart
  • You
  • Soft

• I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Father
  • Actor
  • More

• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Will

• 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.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Moments

• 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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Buildings
  • Off

• I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Gay

• The world of Debussy is a seductive oasis, and it is hard to leave it after spending many days immersed in its atmosphere. Playing Debussy-or any other composer with a strong and idiosyncratic personality-affects not only one's cast of mind but the physical disposition as well, the way the muscles work and the fingers come into contact with the ivories.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • World
  • Work
  • Mind

• I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

  

  James Lipton
  • People
  • Important
  • Strong

• With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

  

  Basil Moreau
  • Faith
  • Mission
  • Accomplish

• 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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