Frankie Ballard Quotes
I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
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One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.
