Bob Melvin Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
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I'm really comfortable with myself.
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Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
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Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.
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Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.
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All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
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I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.
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Dustin threw reasonably well, but his curve wasn't as good as it could be at times.
