Babe Ruth Quotes
I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
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Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped. (p. 309)
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What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
