Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
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The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
