Earl Weaver Quotes
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Let us have peace.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Justified is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.
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Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
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There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
