Vin Scully Quotes
The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
Quotes to Explore
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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We'd go in there without much of an idea and sit and discuss. They evolved in the studio itself. Directions would appear, and it often fell to me to write the poem that connected the dots.
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A charge of knights was supposed to be thundering death on hooves, a flail of metal driven by the ponderous weight of men, horses and armor, and properly done, it was a mass maker of widows.
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
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In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.
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Man thinks, God directs.
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
