R.A. Dickey Quotes
If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Thanks to having my dad travel with me, I don't feel quite cut off from my family.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
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No rack can torture me, My soul ’s at liberty. Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder oneYou cannot prick with saw, Nor rend with scymitar. Two bodies therefore be; Bind one, and one will flee.The eagle of his nest No easier divest And gain the sky, Than mayest thou,Except thyself may be Thine enemy; Captivity is consciousness, So’s liberty.
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To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
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If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work
