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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The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way that over time, my thinking, feeling, choosing, believing and behaving will be molded by the Word God is speaking into my life. I don’t want to critique the Scriptures; I want them to critique me and change me.
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If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.
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I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
