Eddie Guardado Quotes
Last year I mostly only pitched bullpens and batting practice. I went into the season without pitching in a big league game. But I was feeling great. So we're trying to keep the same routine here.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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I hate the word sexy.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
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Last year I mostly only pitched bullpens and batting practice. I went into the season without pitching in a big league game. But I was feeling great. So we're trying to keep the same routine here.
