Ricky Schroder Quotes
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.
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Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.
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... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.
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Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.
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I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at the time was right in the front, so I just looked out the window. I couldn't write. I couldn't concentrate. I was like, "What are you doing? What do you expect to achieve by standing in front of my house with my daughter inside?" I hated that kid so much.
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You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.
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We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.
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The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
