Lefty Gomez Quotes

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

Lefty Gomez

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• I always put my boxing first.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • First
  • Boxing

• I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Kind
  • Personality
  • Find

• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Embarrassed
  • Hobbies

• I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Acting

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • True
  • Development

• I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

  

  Jack Black
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I call myself a geriatric starlet.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Myself
  • Call
  • Starlet

• Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Important
  • Home
  • Marriage

• The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Character
  • Simple
  • Style

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Shakespeare

• Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

  

  Cole Porter
  • Country
  • Forever
  • Fence

• From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Dad

• The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • War
  • History
  • Military

• Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.

  

  Javier Camara
  • Work
  • America
  • Single

• Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • Nation
  • Simply
  • Sows

• Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Actor
  • Theater
  • Director

• I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • People

• All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

  

  Chely Wright
  • People

• If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

  

  Lefty Gomez