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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I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.
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I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
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You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?
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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
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I am proud to be the granddaughter and daughter of immigrants who were brave enough to leave their homes and come to a whole new world with a different language and culture and immerse themselves fearlessly to start a better life for themselves and their families.
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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.
