Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes
What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
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There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.
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What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
