Richard L. Evans Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'
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MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.
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It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...
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I was sixteen when suddenlyI wasn't that little girl you used to see.But your eyes still shined like pretty lights,And our daddies used to joke about the two of us.They never believed we'd really fall in love.And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyesAnd said oh my my my...
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Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.
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Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.
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I have to constantly remind myself that no one is perfect and that this is my journey, and I have to be kind to myself.
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I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.
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More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
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Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they are being used. Allow them to discover you.
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None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.
