Dan Quisenberry Quotes
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
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I do everything in this life-or-death way.
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I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
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It takes some balls to live life to the fullest.
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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.