Richie Allen Quotes
I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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To say that Iran doesn't practice terrorism is like saying Derek Jeter never played shortstop for the New York Yankees.
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Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.
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I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all extremist ideologies are very similar.
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
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The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
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When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
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I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
