Casey Stengel Quotes
This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?'
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
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A lot of people said this was impossible. 'You can't build biotech for $50,000. You can't build anything for $50,000.' Well, that's no longer true, and we're proving it.
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The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.
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This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?'
