Rickey Henderson Quotes
You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.
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I have never gauged myself against anyone else.
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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
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The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.
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'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'
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I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
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There are times when you have to fight for something you believe in, that you love.
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We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.
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I can overact in two seconds.
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.