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Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.

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• We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • History
  • Dream
  • Always

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Music
  • Done

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Person

• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Free
  • Growth

• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Pretty
  • Joy
  • Woman

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Regrets

• I think both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are establishing legacies just by how long they've maintained their championship runs. I think both of them still have a lot left in their careers.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Long
  • Think
  • Championship

• As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Money
  • Popular

• We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Energy

• I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Natural

• This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Music
  • Want
  • Conversation

• I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

  

  David Mumford
  • People
  • Pride
  • Math

• It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • World
  • History
  • Person

• Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.

  

  Umar