Mike Piazza Quotes

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

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• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Person

• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Never
  • Say

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I will open an era of grand national unity.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Will
  • Unity
  • Open

• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  

  Om Puri
  • Films
  • Lot
  • Copies

• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Life

• No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Future
  • Dream

• Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Life
  • Cool

• I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Band

• The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Movie
  • High
  • Celebrity

• She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

  

  Bill Haley Bill Haley & His Comets
  • Small
  • Telephone
  • Booth

• We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Society

• 'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• The bullets are useless! And it's dilating!

  

  Whit Bissell
  • Useless
  • Bullets

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Yoga
  • Behinds
  • Knees

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Death
  • Darkness

• I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

  

  Mike Piazza
  • Player
  • Return
  • Romance