Andrew McCutchen Quotes
I'll do everything I've got to do to get on base, and I've been doing that. I'm happy with it.
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.
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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
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When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.
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I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
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I just really work hard on myself every day.
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I'll do everything I've got to do to get on base, and I've been doing that. I'm happy with it.
