Mickey Mantle Quotes
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
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I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.
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Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
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Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring, we had a week off. I have a problem with flying, so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads...
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Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
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David Harrington asked me to write a piece for Kronos Quartet for a performance in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I live just two blocks from the park and spend many mornings running around it. The park for me symbolizes much of what I love about New York, especially the stunning diversity of Brooklyn with its myriad cultures and communities.
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Thrilling, thrilling to see yourself on a baseball card for the first time.
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I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
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Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
