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.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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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.'
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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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I would love to go to film school.
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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.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.
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A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
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Wagner is a handful to stop for most teams in our league. He's 6-foot-3, but his arms seem like they go forever, and he knows how to use them.
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
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I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!
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Come to God for your healing. Don't hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.
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I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.
