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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
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Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
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Nothing I like to do pays well.
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
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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.
