Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin (Monte Irvin) Quotes
I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.
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I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
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I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.
