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• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Friends
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Own

• I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Big

• Science grows like a weed every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • Like
  • Year

• Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Beauty
  • First
  • Emotion

• If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Law
  • Government
  • Integrity

• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Find Yourself

• Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Law
  • Environment
  • Fans

• Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Poverty
  • Shadow

• I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bad
  • Night

• Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Animal

• Loving-if the answering breastSeem not to be thus possessed,Still in hoping have a care;If it do, beware, beware!But if in yourself you find it,Above all things-mind it, mind it!

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Mind

• Il pleut doucement sur la ville.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• My longest relationship with my first boyfriend was eight and a half years. We broke up a handful of times over those years, but he was my first love, I was his, and we were each other's firsts.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Boyfriend

• Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

  

  Neil Innes

• Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Live
  • Country

• Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Purpose
  • Unity
  • Civilization

• To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poverty
  • Blame
  • Egypt

• Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Pain

• A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

  

  Ban Ki-moon