R.A. Dickey Quotes
When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
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My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.
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I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.
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When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
