Rickey Henderson Quotes
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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I'm very unorganized.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!
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It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
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Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
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I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
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I always wished I had a more flamboyant streak, but it's just not what I'm made of.
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I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
