Vin Scully Quotes
One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
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Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
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One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
