Sammy Sosa Quotes
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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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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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,' said Jefferson, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
