Chris Chambliss Quotes

It's always going to be a challenge to keep the strikeouts down with the personnel we have. We're trying to get those numbers down. But when you're scoring the most runs in the National League, I'll take that tradeoff.

Chris Chambliss

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• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Years
  • Will
  • Guilt

• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Past
  • Audience
  • Young

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • World
  • Dream
  • Thought

• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Power
  • You
  • Powerful

• The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Deep

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Energy
  • City
  • New York

• The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Will

• Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Want
  • See
  • Old

• I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Unstoppable
  • Virtually

• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  

  Jack Herer
  • You
  • See
  • Old

• I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Children
  • Special

• Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Serious

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Work
  • Understanding

• I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

  

  David Brock

• Oh, sweet it is, where grass is deepAnd swifts are overhead,To lie and watch the clouds, and weepFor friends already dead.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Friends
  • Sweet
  • Clouds

• It's always going to be a challenge to keep the strikeouts down with the personnel we have. We're trying to get those numbers down. But when you're scoring the most runs in the National League, I'll take that tradeoff.

  

  Chris Chambliss
  • Challenge
  • Strikeouts
  • Tradeoff