Babe Ruth Quotes
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
Quotes to Explore
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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A house sold by A to B does not wander from one place to another, although it circulates as a commodity.
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When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.
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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
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How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
