Bob Melvin Quotes
We're kind of in that difficult line, where you still feel like you're in it. You still go out there and try to win every game, yet you have to look periodically at these other guys. It's not a real comfortable place to be, yet that's where we are and guys are going to get some days off from time to time.Bob Melvin
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
Vikas Swarup -
Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
Francesco Totti -
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando -
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Randy Pausch -
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. Pritchett
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
Daniel Barenboim -
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann -
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
Harlan Coben -
I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
Harold Ramis -
Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
Natalie Dormer -
I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.
Ian MacKaye
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Nancy Pearcey -
I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
Indra Nooyi -
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
Sam Shepard -
There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
Dana Carvey -
My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
Ian Watson -
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
Park Geun-hye
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Colour can raise the dead.
Iris Apfel -
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
Hank Johnson -
A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
Alice Dreger -
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
It doesn't matter to me who's the most powerful or profitable country in the world. All countries want to be prosperous. What's happening is a zero-sum game between China and the U.S., where their gain is our loss.
Peter Navarro -
We're kind of in that difficult line, where you still feel like you're in it. You still go out there and try to win every game, yet you have to look periodically at these other guys. It's not a real comfortable place to be, yet that's where we are and guys are going to get some days off from time to time.
Bob Melvin