Kirby Puckett Quotes
All I can do is go out and play as great as I know how. I'm a professional. I didn't come here to just go through the motions, even when you're out of the playoff chase.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.
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One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
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When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
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All I can do is go out and play as great as I know how. I'm a professional. I didn't come here to just go through the motions, even when you're out of the playoff chase.
