Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.
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Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.
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I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like that a lot.
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Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
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You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.
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Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.
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I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
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I like watching 'The X Factor,' but I would never go on it - I think it's too much of a controlled thing.
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I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.
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I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.
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The fact is there should not be any mercury in any vaccine.
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It's great at least to be at 4-2, ... That part is fun. You get to play games that count now. We're entering a tough stretch here. It starts with the Giants.
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Everybody at this point of the year is missing some starters. They took the Giants to overtime (on Dec. 11, and lost 26-23) and that's all you have to say.
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I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.
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[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.
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Turn inward and say to yourself "I'm just gonna do it". That mindset got me to where I am now. I look at the industry like it's a giant mall, and I have a little store - this what I'm selling: I do stand-up, I've got a podcast, and occasionally I act.
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Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response
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It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
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In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing
