Babe Ruth Quotes
"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
Quotes to Explore
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.
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I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
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Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
