Alex Bregman Quotes
You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I can paint in jail.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
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Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.
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Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.
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I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.
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You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
