R.A. Dickey Quotes
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party analysts as the best in the industry; we have industry-leading support with a very large satisfied installed base due to our best-in-class support and development organisations.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
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The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.
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Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.
