Ben Zobrist Quotes

I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.

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• I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • School
  • Girl
  • Lipstick

• Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Always
  • Car
  • Humble

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Future
  • New
  • Storm

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Texas
  • Surprise
  • Leave

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Different
  • Words
  • Religion

• What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • American
  • Dream

• I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Family
  • Myself

• The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Best
  • Human
  • Word

• I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Think
  • Dark

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Question
  • Day

• My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Part

• Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Up
  • Beauty

• The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Mirror

• Let us do our thinking on these great questions, not with our eyes fixed on our bank account, but with a wise outlook on the fields of the future and with the consciousness that the spirit of the Eternal is seeking to distil from our lives, some essence of righteousness, before they pass away.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Future

• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

  

  Karen Blixen

• I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

  

  Mawra Hocane
  • Believe
  • Character

• Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

  

  Cintra Wilson
  • Stop
  • Fame
  • Deserve

• Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • People
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Love
  • Honor

• The experience, to create something from nothing and make it a huge success. It's the process that I love. Coming up with the melodies, picking the beat, the instrumentals, coming up with the lyrics. The process is a beautiful thing.

  

  De La Ghetto
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Process

• I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.

  

  Ben Zobrist