Amos Otis Quotes
I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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In my camp, we have Minotoro Noguiera and Lyoto Machida.
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The Trump administration has done everything in its power to uphold the harsh racist reality we have faced.
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I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.
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Less tension in the Middle East is always a positive, and any drop in gas prices will essentially act as a tax break for consumers going into the holiday shopping season.
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In past wars only homes burnt, but this time
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It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water.
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Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.
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I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
