Alex Colville Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson -
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross -
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
J. Philippe Rushton -
There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock -
I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
Sampha -
It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
Natasha Lyonne
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson -
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
Becky G -
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
Gail Collins -
If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
Eddie Guerrero -
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Jackie Robinson
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
Laura Fraser -
All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.
Donald Johanson -
Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.
Deepika Padukone -
I really love women that manage to be amazing in their age.
Bianca Balti
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Through great input you get great output.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen -
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.
Anton Chekhov -
I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
Colin Firth -
In the electric age, when our central nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner. (p. 4)
Marshall McLuhan -
Anxiety is the normality of our age.
Alex Colville