Ty Cobb Quotes
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I don't like possessions.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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My life is my message.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
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I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
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Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
