Dan Quisenberry Quotes
I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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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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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
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There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.
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The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
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When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
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I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
