Rickey Henderson Quotes

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

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• I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Past
  • Myself

• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Tired

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Government
  • Minimum Wage

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Christian

• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

  Edmund White
  • Like
  • Always
  • Driver

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Kind
  • Kid
  • Shy

• If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Angry

• In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Single

• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Forget
  • First
  • Lose

• I would love to go to film school.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • School
  • Love
  • Film

• I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Refuge
  • Shallow
  • Seriousness

• I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

  

  Carole King
  • Band
  • Moving
  • Direct

• If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Country
  • History
  • Looks

• I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it." People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• I'm so proud of you! I gushed, a statement I've only recently come to realize can be a backhanded compliment, insinuating that the person you're proud of has had to overcome some character flaw to do whatevre they've done to make you proud, so what you're really saying is not that you're proud, but that you're suprised the person has made you proud.

  

  Bernard Cooper
  • Character
  • Proud
  • Surprised

• Everybody is really contributing. When that's going on, it's a lot of fun.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Fun
  • Going On
  • Contributing

• You date people to practice and to learn and to grow. But for me, everything was always a hang-up, or there was something there that I felt was a bit off.

  

  Michael Landes
  • Always
  • Practice
  • Something

• I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • World
  • WIld

• I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

  

  Rickey Henderson
  • Something
  • League
  • Contributing