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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Remember that your bird should have no other model than the bat, because its membranes serve as an armour or rather as a means of building together the pieces of its armour, that is the framework of the wings.
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I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.
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People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.
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I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.
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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.
