Babe Ruth Quotes
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Quotes to Explore
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.
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So many people think being single is the end of something, but it's really a beginning - a good beginning.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
