CC Sabathia (Carsten Charles Sabathia Jr.) Quotes
Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!
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One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I'd ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I'd goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn't even notice.
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In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.
