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.'

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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.

  

  Babasaheb
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• Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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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.

  

  Abbey Clancy
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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.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

  

  Kate Adie
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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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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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.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

  

  Tara Strong
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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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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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.

  

  C. V. Raman
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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.

  

  Warren G
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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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.

  

  Charles Duhigg
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• When I was growing up, my brother liked the Beatles, and I liked the Rolling Stones. I think if I were a girl, Keith would be the one I fancied.

  

  George Ezra
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• I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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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.'

  

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