Carl Hubbell Quotes
They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
