Asdrubal Cabrera Quotes
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty.
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I've always known what I wanted. I've always wanted to be on top of that podium.
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If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
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Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited.
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I'm not one to put a lot of pressure on myself.
