Ted Williams Quotes
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.
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I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
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It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
