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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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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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.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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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?
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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.
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I will open an era of grand national unity.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
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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.
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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.
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We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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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.
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What I do for Make-A-Wish is I make children and families that are up against some pretty tough circumstances, I let them come into our WWE universe, and I do my best to make them feel good. I've seen a lot of kids and a lot of families happy, and I think people are going to watch 'American Grit' and have emotional moments.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.
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America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.
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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.
