Casey Stengel Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.
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I've reached the point where people text me randomly for favors, like, 'Hey can I pick your brain?' People I haven't talked to in years are asking for favors. It's like, 'Wow people really got some nerve.'
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I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.
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My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
