Willie McCovey Quotes
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
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There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
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You cut your life down for spite!
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
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Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.
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I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
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I want to figure out how we put California and America back on track - how we bridge this partisan divide that is so polarizing.
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One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me, and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.
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Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.
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Workers are basically supervisors of machines.
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Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
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All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn’t bear it, I couldn’t forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.
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I didn't have a record player.
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History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
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I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.
