Bushwick Bill (Richard Stephen Shaw) Quotes

See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

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• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

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• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  

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• When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

  

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• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

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• To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.

  

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• Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.

  

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• The world’s been waiting, they’ve been waiting for years And they’ve just gotta hear it The kids are waiting, they’ve been shedding tears So open your arms and sing for us

  

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• I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must  be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me  if you are not laughing at me.

  

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• High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

  

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• See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

  

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• I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.

  

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• See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

  

  Bushwick Bill
  • Driving
  • Flying
  • Shooting