Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin (Monte Irvin) Quotes
We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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J. K. Simmons
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
Dan Colen
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Malcolm Boyd
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
Patricia Neal
America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
Barack Obama
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Claire McCaskill
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Phil Schiller
I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.
Charles Grodin
For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.
Athanasius
A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
Yuri Lowenthal
Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
Natalie Massenet
We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
