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.

Alex Bregman

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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?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Voice
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Progress

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Up
  • Guy
  • New

• 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.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Food

• Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Choose

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Animals
  • Meat

• 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.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Stronger

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Proud

• 'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Work
  • Demon

• Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • King

• It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Painting

• Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Failure

• Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.

  

  Max Liebermann
  • Up
  • Desire

• I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Women
  • Job

• Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • People

• When you take a genre that is this entrenched and become the worldwide standard for how a news program is done and you start looking at alternative ways to do it, it's a challenging process, ... You have a core audience that is used to things a certain way that you don't want to alienate, but you also want to attract a new audience. We're trying to balance those two things.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Balance

• I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Trying
  • President
  • States

• 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.

  

  Alex Bregman
  • Trying
  • Baseball
  • Hits