Adrian Beltre Quotes
When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
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The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
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I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.
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Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.
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I think there are times as believers when we feel entitled and that life shouldn't be hard. We live in this culture of convenience that says we can do everything ourselves and find all the answers on Google. But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race.
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If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
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I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.
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Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
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Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
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I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.
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When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.
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Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
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When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.
