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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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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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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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
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The thing about bikers and truckers is they're just regular folks, and that's definitely my demographic.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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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?'
