Andrew Benintendi Quotes
I think my size sometimes catches people off guard, but I don't think size matters when it comes to power. Mechanics and technique and bat speed matter more.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've also heard people call it 'text neck,' and in my work, I sometimes refer to it as 'iPosture.'
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Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.
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Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
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As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
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I think my size sometimes catches people off guard, but I don't think size matters when it comes to power. Mechanics and technique and bat speed matter more.
