Rafael Palmeiro Quotes
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
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My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.
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Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
