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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I will not leave this Earth until I play Harley Quinn.
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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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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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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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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.
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My books aren't autobiographical.
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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.
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I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
