Andy Van Slyke Quotes

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

Andy Van Slyke

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• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Driven

• I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Running
  • City
  • New

• I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Just
  • Curse
  • Sit

• When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ending

• I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Friends
  • Language
  • Loss

• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • High
  • House
  • Doing

• I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Little
  • How

• I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

  

  Gary Peters
  • People
  • Community
  • Seriously

• 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Song
  • Always
  • Screw

• I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.

  

  Usher
  • Past
  • Connection
  • Searching

• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Films
  • Seeing
  • Carbon

• Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • Together
  • Society

• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Single

• What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Perfect
  • Fool
  • Clever

• An anti-abortion conference goer says, 'Well, don't you believe that life begins at inception?' I say, 'No. I believe that life begins when you mind your own fucking business!'

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

  

  Bernard Law Montgomery
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Decision

• You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fool

• I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

  

  Pete Cashmore
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I bear testimony of our Heavenly Father, the Father of our spirits; of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and Savior; and of the Holy Ghost, who is the means through which we receive divine guidance. I bear testimony that we can personally receive inspiration.

  

  Allan F. Packer
  • Inspiration
  • Jesus Christ
  • Guidance

• There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Work
  • Together
  • Stop

• I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

  

  Andy Van Slyke