Barnabas Quotes
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
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I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.
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Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.
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When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us.
