Edward Charles Ford (Whitey Ford) Quotes
We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I came to America because this is a country defined by ladders of opportunity.
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Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.
