Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

Willie Stargell

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• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

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• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
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• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
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• It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

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• There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

  

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• I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.

  

  Caitlin Rose
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• Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  

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• Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

  

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• One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Friends
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• When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Up

• Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

  

  B.J. Penn
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• I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Hate
  • Crowds
  • Retiring