Rafael Palmeiro Quotes
You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
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I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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“I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and also—I am so gratified to report—they sometimes check in with one another. Correspondences have sprung up and friendships have started to form beyond my influence. Family has begun to take on a transitive property as well.”
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
