Richie Ashburn Quotes
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
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Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
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A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
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We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
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Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules.
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In terms of doing this, as our life’s work, we really enjoy it. That’s a big one. Getting through 50 years is going to be great, and from there, we’ll just take a look. We don’t have any plans of retirement, that’s for sure.
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It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.
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To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
