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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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.
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It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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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.
