Ray Allen Quotes
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There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.
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We have to finesse people. We've had different people step forward each week. More than one person chips in.
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Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
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We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.
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Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats.
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You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
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Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.
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A man who refused to be warned only remembers the warning when his forehead is covered with wounds.
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Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
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When I hit one over, I knew I was good.
