Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
Quotes to Explore
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.
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I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I have an equal opportunity womb!
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
