Bobby Abreu (El Comedulce) Quotes

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• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Rock
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Brain
  • Study
  • Same

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Love
  • Age
  • College

• My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Parents
  • Boat
  • Italy

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Business
  • War

• The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Revolutionary

• My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.

  

  Becky G
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Makeup

• When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • People
  • Nice
  • Contact

• Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I always carry my camera with me.

  

  David Karp

• When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

  

  Leif Garrett

• Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Choices

• It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Career

• When it was announced that Michael Keaton was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. When they announced that Val Kilmer was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. When it was announced that George Clooney was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. When it was announced that Christian Bale was going to be Batman, everyone was mad. And everyone was mad about Ben Affleck. So every single incarnation, people are going to be mad; you just can't do anything about it.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • People
  • Mad
  • Incarnation

• Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Age
  • Soul
  • Education

• Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Tree
  • Scene

• Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Life
  • Gratitude
  • Prince

• Everyone here contributes to win the games, so there is no pressure on any one player.

  

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