Rafael Palmeiro Quotes
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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If Turkish or Moroccan boys misbehave here, it's up to us to re-educate them and, when necessary, to punish them.
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I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
