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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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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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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I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
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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.
