Bob Melvin Quotes

He gave us what we needed. The ball was diving probably more so than we've seen, with the amount of strikeouts that you saw. I've said many times, there are sinkers, and then there's what he throws up there.

Bob Melvin

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• When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

  

  Wally Lamb
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• I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

  

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• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

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• I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

  

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• I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

  

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• With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

  

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• Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.

  

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• The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

  

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• We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

  

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• All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

  

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• Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

  

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• I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

  

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• I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

  

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• I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

  

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• And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

  

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• We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don't have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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• For most men, time moves slowly, oh so slowly, they don't even realize it. But time has revealed itself to me in a very special way. Time is a rushing, howling wind that rages past me, withering me in a single, relentless blast, and then continues on. I've been sitting here passively, submissive to its rage, watching its work. Listen! Time, howling, withering!

  

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• Conscience is a man's compass.

  

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• He gave us what we needed. The ball was diving probably more so than we've seen, with the amount of strikeouts that you saw. I've said many times, there are sinkers, and then there's what he throws up there.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Needed
  • Strikeouts
  • Sinkers