Earl Weaver Quotes
I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
