D. B. Sweeney Quotes
In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
Quotes to Explore
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.
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Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
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I am a total me, me, Me person.
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In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
