Lou Brock Quotes

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

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• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Book

• In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

  

  Orson Welles
  • America
  • Man
  • Bond

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Man
  • Head
  • Machine

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• 'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Men
  • Defeat

• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Embarrassed
  • Apologetic

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Anger
  • Atmosphere

• I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Home
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Internet
  • California
  • Rights

• Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Now
  • Weekend
  • Eating

• Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Home

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Animal
  • Plant

• I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Boat
  • Hunting

• Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Reality
  • Importance
  • Capital

• I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Men
  • Want
  • Player

• Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level.

  

  Johnathan Joseph
  • Time
  • High

• I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Different
  • Happy

• If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

  

  Lou Brock
  • Baseball