CC Sabathia (Carsten Charles Sabathia Jr.) Quotes
I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
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I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.
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I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
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It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?
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I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.
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I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.
